My fascination of Chinese Calligraphy led me to Xu Bing. He is a Chinese-born artist, living in the US since 1990. He was a student of Central Academy of Fine Arts and is currently the head of school. He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations pieces, as well as his creative artistic use of text. Through such process, people can understand the word through the process of merging Eastern and Western elements.
For 25 years, he has been traveling around the
world from Asia to Europe to America. With such a broad horizon, he creates the Chinese
Arts that are composed of outer elements or characteristics. In the
picture above, the installation have 3 huge pieces of
Chinese Calligraphy (not quite because Chinese people cannot
understand the characters on them) and a small hill of sans on it, which
creates contrast between carved stone walls and degraded sands.
Book to the Sky and Book to the Mother Land
This is a piece wade from Tabaco.
Here are some of the other of his art works.In addition, he also played with new computer characters.
He is best know for his revolutionize Chinese calligraphy, even though Chinese cannot read them, people from the other parts of the world might be able to form connection with them because he utilized all the elements from other languages that includes English.After appreciating all these artworks, I really wish to integrate other or outer elements into my works, through such process, I can create art that is connected to people on the different side of the earth and communicate with them though art as a medium.
Work References
http://www.tfam.museum/Exhibition/Exhibition_page.aspx?id=495
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Bing
http://www.xubing.com/index.php/site/projects
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Dear Justin, i went to the exactly same exhibition during the Chinese new year break. At first i thought "oh, it is another strange artist that i won't understand", but as i pace through the museum, i actually feel pretty moved by his calligraphy like pieces. I had the same reaction as you did, awed by the recreations of characters, i think it is in all of us to have that curiosity to explore th combination between two different languages.
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