Exhibition Date: 12/01/2017- 05/08/2018

Exhibition Location: The United Art Museum, Wuhan, China

Exhibited Works: Dragonfly Eyes, Book from the Sky, Book from the Ground, Square Word Calligraphy, Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?, Tobacco Project, Background Story, Landscript, Ghost Pounding the Wall, Phoenix, A Case Study of Transference, The Character of Characters, Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Scroll, Forest Project, Touching without Touchinng, early woodcuts and sketches and more 

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The end of this year marks a decade since I returned back to China. Although I have done countless exhibitions abroad, this is the first solo exhibition of such large scale in China. Looking at my past works gathered here, which acting like mirrors of various dimensions, allowing me to see myself, to see who I am, how I think, how I work and my inadequateness. Then I realise art is honest, and it is destined, not planned.

–– Xu Bing

Over the past three decades, Xu Bing has followed multiple threads of thinking and created a variety of artworks, impressive in quantity and style. Clear in expression and sharp when tackling issues, Xu Bing's work is sui generis among contemporary art and he keeps influencing the landscape of Chinese contemporary art at different levels. This exhibition, for the first time in mainland China, presents a comprehensive and concentrated survey of Xu Bing’s art, featuring Xu Bing’s masterpieces and relevant archives from each stage of his career, including some experimental work that few know about. 

Yet it is not a simple retrospective nor a summary. Instead, through artworks, this exhibition reveals Xu Bing’s artistic method and the core motivation of his constant thinking. We hope that the exhibition itself, like Xu Bing’s art, is able to reward something beyond expectation in an approachable way, and able to invite the audience to understand the artist’s  thinking from various perspectives. Every piece of work has its own reason and ways of being included and having impacts in the exhibition, regardless of its type and previous popularity. The exhibition is designed to give the audience some enlightenment from the connection between Xu Bing’s approach of art and his intellectual contribution to today’s world. 

Exhibition Date: 10/06/2017 – 01/07/2018

Exhibition Location: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA. 

                                Traveled to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibited Work: Where Does the Dust Itself Collect?, Wu Street, A Case Study of Transference

Exhibition Date: 11/18/2017- 03/04/2018

Exhibition Location: Museu de Arte de Macau, Macau, China

Exhibited Works: Book from the Sky, Book from the Ground, The Character of Characters, A Case Study of Transference

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