Xu Bing: Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground

by Xu Bing

Both Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground share the quality of being indiscriminant of their readers, where the language and education level of their readers are not relevant to the understanding of the works. While Book from the Sky shows XU Bing’s disappointment in language, Book from the Ground shows his search for a language universally understood by contemporary society.

208 pages

Published April 1, 2014

About the author

Xu Bing is a Chinese-born artist who lived in the United States for eighteen years. Currently residing in Beijing, he used to serve as the vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is most known for his printmaking skills and installations pieces, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how they have affected our understanding of the world.