The Language of Xu Bing
Exhibition Date: 12/20/2014 - 07/26/2015
Exhitbition Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Exhibited Works: Multiple works including Calligraphy, Video & Installations
Xu Bing: A Retrospective
Exhibition Date: 01/25/2014-04/20/2014
Exhibition Location: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibited Work: Brilliant Mountain Flowers Magazine; Shattered Jade; Early Drawings and Prints; Big Tire; Five Seris of Repetitions; Book From the Sky; Ghosts Pounding the Wall, A,B,C...; My book; A Case Study of Transference, Cultural Animal, Telephone, Silkworm Series, Square Word Calligraphy and the Classroom; Landscript; Tobacco Project; Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?; Background Story; Magic Carpet; Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll; Book from the Ground; The Character of Characters
Metamorphosis: The Art of Xu Bing
Exhibition Date: 05/08/2014-08/31/2014
Exhibition Location: Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong, China
Exhibited Works: English Square Word Calligraphy, Living World, Background Story, Tobacco Project
Xu Bing and Children's Forest Project: A Special Exhibition in Taiwan
Date: 03/08/2014-05/04/2014
Location: National History Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Work Exhibited: Forest Project (Taiwan)
Xu Bing’s Forest Project originated from Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, a project organized by University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), and Rare. For the Human/Nature Project, artists were invited to go deep into several world cultural heritage sites and use their art to elevate local awareness to protect their own environment. In 2005 Xu Bing reached Kenya and began his Forest Project; he used paintings to raise fund to conserve the forest resources in Kenya. Later on, Xu Bing expanded the Forest Project in Brazil, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and the “Computer Contest” platform in China. Till now, more than 200,000 children participated in Xu Bing’s Forest Project.
This exhibition serves as a new creative model for Xu Bing to inspire the global awareness for environmental protection. Through this Forest Project: Taiwan, which began from the Sandimen Village that suffered great damages from the Typhoon Morakot, Xu wishes to promote a general concern for art education, environmental protection, and cultural heritage. Children who participated in the on-site teaching of Xu Bing and supplied their paintings are referred to as Forest Warriors. For the Forest Project: Taiwan in 2013, we provided the teaching materials online as open data, hoping to inspire more children to paint trees and create a forest together. Currently, the Project has collected more than 1,400 paintings from children in Taiwan. While these paintings are displayed (in original or digital forms) in National Museum of History, we hope more people can purchase these works online and raise enough fund to care for the lands of Taiwan.