This publication coincides with Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project. Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project & Xinjiang Research, a live painting project by Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong. Through visiting the countryside, Liu found in Hotan, Xinjiang some jade excavation workers and their families, and painted them against the background of the White Jade River. The four paintings were then exhibited at Xinjiang Art Center, Urumqi, from 25 August to 8 October 2012, and at Today Art Museum, Beijing, from 13 January to 23 February 2013.

The excavation and marketing of Hotan Jade has formed a economic chain linking different strata of the society, and intervening from the bottom of this chain Liu studies Xijiang in terms of its unique geographies and the expansion of the mainland's economic and cultural linkages.

Also featuring the other parts of the project including a documentary, interviews and symposiums.

With artist biography.



《劉小東在和田&新疆新觀察》是藝術家劉小東的一個現場繪畫項目,他通過田野走訪的工作方法,在新疆和田找到一些採玉工及他們的家屬,以玉龍喀什河為背景,進行現場寫生,創作了四幅油畫作品,於2012年8月25日至10月8日在烏魯木齊國際展覽中心展出。和田玉的開采和銷售,在全國形成了一個波及不同階層的經濟鏈,藝術家從這個鏈條的低端入手,以藝術的手法探討新疆這個獨特的地域與廣闊內地的經濟和文化聯繫。

Alternative title

劉小東在和田&新疆新觀察 | Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project and Xinjiang Research | Liu xiao dong zai he tian yu xin jiang xin guan cha

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Onsite

Location code
MON.LXD
Language

Chinese - Simplified, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

120

ISBN / ISSN

9787508638218

No of copies

2

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Introduction: Dirty Realism: Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project & Xinjiang Research / 前言:骯髒現實主義:劉小東在和田&新疆新觀察 - HOU Hanru, 侯瀚如

Essay: Not the End of the World / 簡述:何似天之涯 - ZHONG Acheng, 鍾阿城

Sketches / 速寫 - LIU Xiaodong, 劉小東

Diaries / 日記 - LIU Xiaodong, 劉小東

Paintings / 繪畫 - LIU Xiaodong, 劉小東

Documentary / 紀錄片 - YANG Bo, 楊波

Essay: Underneath the Sky of Xinjiang: A Journey in the World of Reality & Literature / 簡述:西域蒼穹下:現實和文學世界裡的旅行 - OU Ning, 歐寧

Interviews / 採訪

Symposiums / 研討

Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project & Xinjiang Research
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Liu Xiaodong's Hotan Project & Xinjiang Research, 劉小東在和田與新疆新觀察