Tag: Bing| Xu

Monday, June 30th, 2014

Wood, Light and Steel from Ash: Xu Bing’s Phoenixes

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Xu Bing’s interest in metamorphosis takes form as two colossal phoenixes.

Diana Thater, RARE 2008. 16 LCD monitors, DVD player, DVD, and existing architecture, 204 x 264 inches. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gallery, New York. All photographs by Pablo Mason.
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet at the Berkeley Art Museum

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By design, the show is a revealing jumble, expressing something of what it has come to mean to respond to a place (or site, region, niche), and something of what it can no longer mean.