Xu Bing: Writing Between Heaven and Earth at Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU

Photography by Rodrigo Gaya on February 27th, 2015 in Culture

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Miami, FL – February 21, 2015 – Xu Bing: Writing Between Heaven and Earth opened up to a crowd full of admirers at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU. Acclaimed worldwide for propelling contemporary Chinese art onto the global stage with his epic installations, Xu Bing’s latest exhibition encompasses 5,000 square feet and features the artist’s iconic installations plus newer artworks that provoke viewers to challenge their perceptions of cultural identity and language. The exhibition also includes a never-before seen artwork that Xu Bing created specifically for this exhibition at the Frost Art Museum, which will be on display through May 24th. Due to its massive scope and size, only a handful of museums in the world have shown the complete Book from the Sky including all of the hundreds of original components and handmade carvings, which took the artist four years to complete. “This exhibition crowns the Frost Art Museum’s triumvirate series Three Giants of Contemporary Chinese Art,” adds Dr. Pomeroy, “which began last summer with Simon Ma, continued through Art Basel season with Wang Qingsong, and culminates now with Xu Bing – one of the world’s most acclaimed Chinese artists.” Trained in China during the 1970s as a Master Printmaker, Xu Bing was born in Chongqing in 1955 and grew up in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution. A core tenet of his work is the preservation of Chinese culture and traditions. Chinese characters and traditional landscapes feature prominently in his work.

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