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Xiaobai Su
The Elegance of Object
- Skira (T&H)
- by Gao Minglu
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Publisher | Skira (T&H) |
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ISBN | 9788857226842 |
Author(s) | Gao Minglu |
Publication date | September 2016 |
Edition | Hardback |
Dimensions | 300 x 280 mm |
Illustrations | 280 col.ill. | 20 bw.ill. |
Pages | 384 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
One of the most prestigious artists in Chinese contemporary art, Xiaobai Su is among a generation of legendary artists who left China in the 1980s. He adopts lacquer, a medium steeped in Chinese history, as his aesthetic means, and has developed a sensuous yet rigorous art practice that defies classification. Driven by Chinese tradition, Xiaobai Su creates intriguing and magnificent work that speaks a Western language of visual abstraction, with the Buddhist mantra "All reality is a phantom, and all phantoms are real" as its core. Luscious and mysterious, his body of work is defiantly sculptural yet exquisitely delivered - a constellation of extraordinary objects.
Xiaobai Su