'A comprehensive look at paintings, objects, and installations by one of the most prominent artists on the Chinese contemporary art scene through a rich visual documentation surveying the artist’s oeuvre from 2007 to 2015. 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.' - from the publisher's website
Features texts by Gao Minglu, Benjamin Alexander, and John Rajchman. Includes an interview with the artist and a chronology.
Onsite
English
lacquer art,  painting,  abstraction,  tradition
2016
368
9788857231860
1
artist monograph
"Tasting the Thingness" and Contemporaneity on Su Xiaobai's Lacquer Art
- GAO Minglu, 高名潞
The Elegance of Objects
Chapter I: The Surface
- Benjamin ALEXANDER
Chapter II: The Border
- Benjamin ALEXANDER
Chapter III: The Body
- Benjamin ALEXANDER
Chapter IV: Su Xiaobai's Abstract Shift: From Lacquer to White, Hut to Chapel
- John RAJCHMAN
An Interview with Su Xiaobai: Artworks are the Entire Life of the Artist
- Baixi
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