#chinese artists
Xu Bing
A Book from the Sky. 1987-91.
Mixed media installation / Hand-printed books and scrolls printed from blocks inscribed with ”false” characters.
An installation that took Xu Bing over four years to complete, A Book from The Sky is comprised of printed volumes and scrolls containing four thousand ”false” Chinese characters invented by the artist and then painstakingly hand-cut onto wooden printing blocks.
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