Artist Xu Bing to speak tonight at Memorial Hall
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Posted on February 14, 2008
Chinese-born artist Xu Bing, famous for his art aimed at transcending cultural boundaries, will deliver a lecture Feb. 14 at Memorial Hall. The lecture, entitled “Picturing Equality: A Conversation with Xu Bing” is part of the Institute for Visual Studies’ ongoing mission of enabling students to become visually literate.
Bing has explored the relationship between image and text and language and culture in much of his art. He has said that his current creative effort, “Book from the Ground,” is an attempt to create a universal visual language.
Bing experienced China’s “Cultural Revolution,” initiated by Mao Zedong in the 1960s, and spent two years relocated in the countryside. He later attended the Central Academy of Fine Art in Bejing, and currently lives in the United States.
An exhibit chronicling some of his work, including some pieces never before exhibited, is located in the Sawhill Gallery through Feb. 26.
