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The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine , written by Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine , written by Phoenix: Xu Bing at the Cathedral New York, ny, usa, 2014–2015 Phoenix , contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s monumental sculptural work at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City, is his recent contribution to global conversations on contemporary art. Through the artist’s printmaking, experimentations with language, and site-specific installations, he expresses the historical continuity of tradition in a time of significant social and political change. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, Xu came to prominence at the Central Academy of Fine Art ( cafa ) in Beijing where he studied, taught, and found his artistic voice. His master’s thesis project, Five Series of Repetitions (1987), confirmed the artist’s unorthodox methods of combining his love of words with his knowledge of printing, elements that became characteristic of his subsequent work. In 1988 he showed prints from the unfinished A Book from the Sky (1987–1991) at the China Art Gallery (now the National Art Museum of China). The following year, he was invited to show A Book from the Sky in “China/Avant-Garde,” a group exhibition of 180 artists. Closed shortly after it opened, the exhibition was officially denounced as standing for bourgeois liberal tendencies of the “avant-garde.” From 1990 to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2015 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Reviews
ISSN
2352-3077
eISSN
2352-3085
DOI
10.1163/23523085-00103011
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Abstract

New York, ny, usa, 2014–2015 Phoenix , contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing’s monumental sculptural work at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City, is his recent contribution to global conversations on contemporary art. Through the artist’s printmaking, experimentations with language, and site-specific installations, he expresses the historical continuity of tradition in a time of significant social and political change. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, Xu came to prominence at the Central Academy of Fine Art ( cafa ) in Beijing where he studied, taught, and found his artistic voice. His master’s thesis project, Five Series of Repetitions (1987), confirmed the artist’s unorthodox methods of combining his love of words with his knowledge of printing, elements that became characteristic of his subsequent work. In 1988 he showed prints from the unfinished A Book from the Sky (1987–1991) at the China Art Gallery (now the National Art Museum of China). The following year, he was invited to show A Book from the Sky in “China/Avant-Garde,” a group exhibition of 180 artists. Closed shortly after it opened, the exhibition was officially denounced as standing for bourgeois liberal tendencies of the “avant-garde.” From 1990 to

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Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the AmericasBrill

Published: Sep 14, 2015

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