Old is new again at Beijing art museum

Next to Liu's Trace is a piece from Xu Bing's New English Calligraphy series the artist began creating in the early 199os. Xu's calligraphy is familiar yet nonsensical to Chinese readers. But English readers can demystify the work, where the artist turns the letters of each English word into structures that resemble Chinese characters.

For this invention, Xu was awarded the MacArthur Foundation "genius" prize in 1999.

|<< Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next   >>|