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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of contemporary Chinese art, collectors, and anyone interested in cross-cultural artistic innovation and the evolving use of traditional materials in modern art.
Su Xiaobai hails from a prominent generation of artists who left China in the wake of political and cultural experimentation in the 1980s. This book looks at paintings, objects, and installations by one of the most intriguing personalities on the contemporary Chinese art scene; and includes a survey of the artist's oeuvre from 2007 to 2015.
An intimate look at paintings, objects, and installations by one of the most intriguing personalities on the contemporary Chinese art scene; a survey of the artist's oeuvre from 2007 to 2015.
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An intimate look at paintings, objects, and installations by one of the most intriguing personalities on the contemporary Chinese art scene; a survey of the artist's oeuvre from 2007 to 2015.
Su Xiaobai hails from a prominent generation of artists who left China in the wake of political and cultural experimentation in the 1980s. He adopted lacquer, a medium traditionally used by Chinese craftsmen, as his explorative means and fashioned a sensuous yet rigorous art practice that defies classification.
Inspired but not constrained by Chinese artisanship and aesthetics, Su Xiaobai creates gargantuan compositions that speak, in a language informed by Western abstraction, the Buddhist mantra "All reality is a phantom; all phantoms are real."
Luscious and mysterious, his body of work is defiantly sculptural yet exquisitely delivered—a constellation of extraordinary objects.
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ISBN: 9788857226842
Publisher: Skira
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 October 2016
Country: Italy
Imprint: Skira
Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 280.0mm
Height: 300.0mm
Weight: 2600g
Pages: 368
About the Author
With a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a position as research professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, Gao Minglu is a renowned critic, curator, and scholar of Chinese contemporary art since the mid-1980s. Benjamin Alexander is a philosopher and art critic.
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