Black Tadpoles from Series of Repetitions
Catalogue
- Year
- 1988
- Dimensions
- composition: 21 9/16 x 29 1/2" (54.8 x 75 cm); sheet: 26 5/16 x 35 13/16" (66.9 x 91 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Xu Bing
Artist
Painting
Xu Bing is a Chinese artist working across printmaking, installation, and language-based practice. Born in 1955, he is best known for large-scale woodblock prints and conceptual works that interrogate written language, typography, and the materiality of the book. His practice often employs traditional Chinese printmaking techniques alongside contemporary installation, creating works that examine the relationship between image, text, and meaning.
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
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