Stone Path
Stone Path
Taoyuan is a culturally diversified city and a gateway connecting Taiwan and the world. Written language, however, is an important element for passing on heritages in a cultural context. The new English calligraphy created by Xu Bin is a new system that combines parts of the Chinese characters with English writing, demonstrating a seemingly conflicting yet harmonious beauty just like ethnic groups of diversified cultures co-habiting in Taoyuan.
His work, Stone Path, showcases over 80 pieces of stones engraved with Chinese characters in his new English calligraphy from poems by Bai Juyi, Tsangyang Gyatso and Cui Jian, which are arranged to form poems on the ground.
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Xu Bing
中國 China
Xu Bing, born in China’s Chongqing in 1955, has been invited to showcase his works in various international biennales and is one of the Chinese artists highly acclaimed in the international art circle. He introduces oriental philosophic thinking and cultures into contemporary art and his works critically review such communication instruments as languages, the essence of art and civilization, as well as similarities and conflicts between different species and cultures, in an attempt to put forward a new way and new vision for dialogues between the East and the West through his creations.