Artist & Artworks

A Case Study of Transference
XU Bing
Project 1- Busan Museum of Art

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XU Bing, <A Case Study of Transference 1>, C-p rint, 42x29.7cm, 1993-1994  © artist

XU Bing, <A Case Study of Transference 2>, C-p rint, 42x29.7cm, 1993-1994  © artist

XU Bing, <A Case Study of Transference 3>, C-p rint, 29.7x42cm, 1993-1994  © artist

XU Bing, <A Case Study of Transference 4>, C-pr int, 42x29.7cm, 1993-1994  © artist

XU Bing, <A Case Study of Transference_Display Mock-up>, C-p rint, 29.7x42cm, 1993-1994  © artist

XU Bing, <A Case Study of Transference>, Silk-screen p rinting, 81.5x81.5cm, 1993-1994  © artist

[China]
XU Bing
A Case Study of Transference
A Case Study of Transference 1
A Case Study of Transference 2
A Case Study of Transference 3
A Case Study of Transference 4
A Case Study of Transference_Display Mock-up
A Case Study of Transference

Modularity, process, complexity and attributes of reprinting are the basic tenets of Xu Bing’s conceptual art. Book From The Sky (1987-1991) overthrew the cultural system and notion of text, marking a new tendency in the deconstruction of meaning in the post ’85 art movement. After his arrival in America in the early 1990s, Xu Bing began to question whether the communication between Eastern and Western culture was effective through the translation of languages. He adopted Eastern philosophies and cultures into his work, while thinking critically on language and other means of communication, the essence of art and culture, similarities and conflicts between objects and cultures. He proposed new ways of conversation and envisioned a dialogue of the East and West through his works. A Case Study of Transference set the space up into a pigsty. Prior to the exhibition, male and female pigs were carefully chosen to match their time of estrus. The work presents the fornication of male pigs tattooed with “book from the sky” in English and female pigs tattooed with “book from the earth” in Chinese. While the animalistic instinct shown under a mode of “culture production” in the name of “art”, the viewers were put under the awkward circumstance to discuss the “art”. This work satirizes the philosophical and conceptual approach of art, in the case of the most fundamental and insignificant phenomena of life, where does the boundary of art lay?
트위터 페이스북
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