Book from the Sky
Xu Bing: My formal training as an artist was in printmaking, this is why so many of my works are related to printing. In fact, the printing process is the exact opposite of the sculpting process. Printmaking is about taking a material with elevations and recesses and printing from it so that a three-dimensional form is transposed into a two-dimensional form. It is true that the process by which an artist prepares/carves the material to be transformed into a print contains elements of sculpture; but in printmaking this constitutes the mid-point rather than the end-point. Still, your observation is interesting--that this preparatory stage of print-block carving could be seen as related to early sculptural art.
full interview
http://www.xubing.com/index.php/site/texts/a_conversation_with_xu_bing1/
about
http://www.xubing.com/index.php/site/about
Mahjong list of artists
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/mahjongartists/index.html
No comments:
Post a Comment