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Su Xiaobai

Hardback

Main Details

Title Su Xiaobai
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gao Minglu
By (author) Benjamin Alexander
By (author) John Rajchman
By (author) Baixi
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 300,Width 280
Category/GenreArt and design styles - from c 1960 to now
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9788857226842
ClassificationsDewey:709.2
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher Skira
Imprint Skira
Publication Date 6 October 2016
Publication Country Italy

Description

An intimate look at paintings, objects, and installations by one of the most intriguing personalities on the contemporary Chinese art scene; a survey of the artist's oeuvre from 2007 to 2015. Su Xiaobai hails from a prominent generation of artists who left China in the wake of political and cultural experimentation in the 1980s. He adopted lacquer, a medium traditionally used by Chinese craftsmen, as his explorative means and fashioned a sensuous yet rigorous art practice that defies classification. Inspired but not constrained by Chinese artisanship and aesthetics, Su Xiaobai creates gargantuan compositions that speak, in a language informed by Western abstraction, the Buddhist mantra "All reality is a phantom; all phantoms are real." Luscious and mysterious, his body of work is defiantly sculptural yet exquisitely delivered-a constellation of extraordinary objects.

Author Biography

With a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a position as research professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, Gao Minglu is a renowned critic, curator, and scholar of Chinese contemporary art since the mid-1980s. Benjamin Alexander is a philosopher and art critic.