The Language of Xu Bing
[Top] Holding the Brush (1996) [Bottom] Softening the Brush (1996)
Backbone (2011)
[Left] The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010) [Back] The Character of Characters (2012) [Center] Silkworm Book (1998) [Right] Holding the Brush (1996)
The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010)
[Back] The Character of Characters (2012), [Upper Right] Holding the Brush (1996), [Lower Right] Softening the Brush (1996)
[Left] The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010) [Back] The Character of Characters (2012) (Right) Silkworm Book (1998)
Square Word Calligraphy: Rise Free from Care (2009)
[Left] The Mustard Seed Garden Landscape (2010) [Back] The Character of Characters (2012) [Center] Silkworm Book (1998) [Right] Holding the Brush (1996)
[Left] The Character of Characters (2012) [Center] Silkworm Book (1998) [Right] Holding the Brush (1996)
Duration: December 20, 2014 — July 26, 2015
Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Exhibited Works: Various calligraphy, video, & installation works
Xu Bing: A Retrospective
Magic Carpet (2006)
Tobacco Project: Honor and Splendor (2004)
Ghosts Pounding the Wall (1990-1991)
Background Story (2004-2014)
Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll (2010)
Four Poems of W.B. Yeats (2008)
A,B,C... (1991)
Landscript (2013)
A Case Study of Transference (1993-1994)
Book from the Sky (1987-1991)
Early Drawings and Prints (1985)
Brilliant Mountain Flowers Magazine (1975-1977)
Book From the Ground (2003- ongoing)
Silkworm Series (1994-2001)
Square Word Calligraphy and the Classroom (1994-2012)
Cultural Animal
Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?
Duration: January 25, 2014 — April 20, 2014
Location: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibited Works: Brilliant Mountain Flowers Magazine, Shattered Jade, Big Tire, Five Seris of Repetitions, Book from the Sky, Ghosts Pounding the Wall, A, B, C..., A Case Study of Transference, Cultural Animal, Telephone, Silkworm Series, Square Word Calligraphy and the Classroom, Landscript, Tobacco Project, Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?, Background Story, Magic Carpet, Mustard Seed Garden, Landscape Scroll, Book from the Ground,The Character of Characters
Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing
English Square Word Calligraphy: Zhuang Zi
Bird Language
Background Story: Landscape in the Style of Xu Daoning
Tobacco Project: Bakebone
Tobacco Project: Tobacco Book
The Character of Characters
Duration: May 8, 2014 — August 31, 2014
Location: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China
Exhibited Works: Square Word Calligraphy, Living Word, Background Story, Tobacco Project
A Special Exhibition in Taiwan: Children's Forest Project
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Forest Project, Taiwan, 2014
Duration: March 8, 2014 — May 4, 2014
Location: National History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibited Work: Forest Project (Taiwan)
Xu Bing’s Forest Project originated from Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, a project organized by University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), and Rare. For the Human/Nature Project, artists were invited to several world cultural heritage sites to promote local environmental awareness through their art. In 2005, Xu Bing traveled to Kenya and began his Forest Project where he used paintings to raise funds dedicated to the nation’s conservation of forest resources. Later on, Xu Bing expanded the Forest Project to Brazil, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and the “Computer Contest” platform in China. Now, more than 200,000 children have participated in Xu Bing’s Forest Project.
The Forest Project: Taiwan began in response to the severe damages that the peoples of Sandimen Village suffered from Typhoon Morakot. This exhibition serves as a creative model of Xu Bing’s to foster global awareness of environmental protection, art education, and cultural heritage. Children who participated in Xu Bing’s on-site teaching and supplied their paintings are referred to as Forest Warriors. During the Forest Project: Taiwan in 2013, teaching materials were provided online as open data to inspire the youth to paint trees and create a forest together. Currently, the project has collected more than 1,400 paintings from children in Taiwan. While these paintings are displayed (in original or digital forms) in the National Museum of History, we hope more people can purchase these works online and raise enough funds to care for the lands of Taiwan.
