Su Xiaobai

Gao Minglu,Benjamin Alexander,John Rajchman,Baixi

Su Xiaobai
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Skira
Country
Italy
Published
1 December 2016
Pages
368
ISBN
9788857226842

Su Xiaobai

Gao Minglu,Benjamin Alexander,John Rajchman,Baixi

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.

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