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The Artist Project: Xu Bing

Mar 25, 2015 3 MINUTES

"I like those landscapes that people have in their everyday life but don't take notice of, but have the traces of human activity and human life."

Artist Xu Bing on Jean-François Millet's "Haystacks: Autumn" in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Xu Bing, born in 1955, is a Chinese printmaker and installation artist.

Xu Bing (Chinese, born 1955)

Book from the Sky (Tianshu), ca. 1987–91

Box set of four hand-printed books with thread binding, ink on paper plus wood box; books (each): 18 1/16 × 11 3/4 in. (45.9 × 29.9 cm), box: 19 1/4 × 13 1/16 × 4 in. (48.9 × 33.2 × 10.2 cm). Princeton University Art Museum, Purchase of the East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University Art Museum, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art (2002-281.1-.5). Photo: Princeton Art Museum / Art Resource, New York © 1991, Xu Bing.