Square Word Calligraphy: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Walt Whitman, 2018
Ink on paper, 89.4 x 48.6 in. (227 x 124 cm)
Brooklyn Museum Collection, Brooklyn, New York
A Case Study of Transference: Times Overlap
Medium: Performance and video editing
2018
Exhibition Location: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2019
Exhibition Location: Somerset House, London, England
Background Story - Old Trees, Level Distance
Background Story - Old Trees, Level Distance, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2018
Background Story - Old Trees, Level Distance, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2018
2018
Materials: Natural debris attached to frosted glass panel
Exhibition Location: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
"In 2004, I was installing an exhibition at the East Asian Art Museum in Germany. During the Second World War, 90 percent of the collection was moved to the former Soviet Union by the Soviet Red Army. Only some photos of the lost artwork are left. I hope to use the large glass showcases surrounding the existing space to create a new work that combines local history and my cultural background. I saw the potted plants behind the frosted glass wall in the office area of the airport during a connecting flight, which looked like a smudged Chinese painting. At this time, I thought of the large glass cabinets of the museum and the missing art pieces and got the inspiration for Background Story."
- Xu Bing