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Xiaobai Su

The Elegance of Object


  • Skira (T&H)
  • by Gao Minglu
Xiaobai Su is among a generation of legendary artists who left China in the 1980s. He adopts lacquer as his aesthetic means, and has developed a sensuous yet rigorous art practice that defies classification. Driven by Chinese tradition, he creates intriguing 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.

ISBN 9788857226842 | E | HB
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Publisher Skira (T&H)
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.
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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.