Since its completion, the Forest of Stone Steles has been exhibited in a handful of locations in Australia, America and Hong Kong. This exhibition at OCT Contemporary Art Terminal is the first to display the entire series of works. The exhibition takes the theme of 'Cultural Translation' as its subject, and intends to explore the cultural meaning of this monumental works.
Essays authored by many well-known Chinese and foreign scholars are collected in this publication. Also included in the book are documentations of the process of making Forest of Stone Steles, texts from the steles and Gu's script.
Onsite
Chinese - Simplified,
English
2005
7536231814
2
artist monograph,
catalogue
Introduction - HUANG Zhuan, 黃專
Forest of Stone Steles, Retranslation & Rewriting of Tang Poetry 1993-2005 - GU Wenda, 谷文達
Monumentality and Anti-monumentality in Wenda Gu's Forest of Stone Steles, Retranslation & Rewriting of Tang Poetry - WU Hung, 巫鴻
Remnant Stone of Babel - FAN Jingzhong, 范景中
Translation as Transformation: Wenda Gu's Forest of Stone Steles, Retranslation & Rewriting of Tang Poetry - David CATEFORIS
The True Meaning of Forest of Stone Steles - PENG De, 彭德
Four-eyed Wenda Gu - How Wenda Gu Creates His Steles - CHENG Zheng, 程征
Acknowledgement after Fifty Years, Twenty Years and Twelve Years - GU Wenda, 谷文達
Translating Visuality - Gu Wenda: Forest of Stone Steles, Retranslation & Rewriting of Tang Poetry, 文化翻譯: 古文達<碑林 - 唐詩後著>
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