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1955 (Chongqing)
Death
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New York / China
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conceptual, meaning of language, live creature installation
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|  An emigrant to the United States form China in 1989 following the crackdown on the arts at that time, Xu Bing is a conceptual artist focused on "hybrid cultures and hybrid language", the reconciling of Western and Eastern cultures. To make his point, he does large-scale installations, some with live creatures such as birds, silkworms, sheep and pigs. In Washington DC at the zoo, he did a simulated zoo exhibit of the giant panda environment.
At his summer 2004 New York exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, he created an installation called "Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?" The title references a Zen poem that asserts the importance of keeping one's mind dust free. Bing's belief is that one should not be dust free because dust is a very stable, peaceful, unchanging material and, because of those qualities, is a very Zen material. This work features dust from Ground Zero that has been distributed by a leaf blower into wire-handled stencils that spell out a message relating to the theme.
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"The New York Times", July 12, 2004, 'Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust', by Ann Wilson Lloyd. |
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