Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship - Villa Grisebach

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916 R Xu Bing
Chongqing 1955 – lives in New York
FROM: “FIVE SERIES OF REPETITIONS”.
1987/88
10 woodcuts, each on Japan laid paper.
52,5 x 73,5 cm to 55 x 74 cm
(66,5 x 90,5 cm) (20 ⅝ x 28 ⅞ in. to
21 ⅝ x 29 ⅛ in. (26 ⅛ x 35 ⅝ in.)).
Each signed and dated.
Donated by the artist, courtesy
Alexander Ochs, Berlin / Beijing
€ 70.000 – 90.000
$ 90,700 – 116,600
Xu Bing was the Coca-Cola Fellow
at the American Academy in Berlin
in the spring of 2004.
Grisebach 11/2012
Born in the southwest Chinese city of Chongqing, the painter
and installation artist Xu Bing was a major force in the creation
of an independent Chinese art scene in the 1980s. He studied
printmaking in Beijing and received various awards for his work.
Following the massacre of Tiananmen Square, Xu emigrated to
the US and is today considered one of the most important
contemporary Chinese artists. His works span across many
genres and media. Frequently large suites of woodcuts or
etchings will form the basis of major installations, as in 1990,
when Xu made casts of parts of the Great Wall of China, created
a group of prints, using traditional methods, that measured
32 x 15 meters overall. The American Academy’s Fellowship in
spring 2004 provided the impetus for Berlin’s Museum of
East Asian Art to organize Germany‘s first substantial solo exhibition
of Xu’s work. He won the MacArthur Award (1999)
in recognition of his ”capacity to contribute importantly to
society, particularly in printmaking and calligraphy.“.