Xu bings

executed in 2003
signed and titled in Square Word Calligraphy, and marked with one seal of the artist

Note:



Spring Dawn, Poem by Meng Hao Ran



I scarcely know it was dawn, so sound was the sleep of spring.
Everywhere there was birdsong.
All night long was the sound of wind and rain.
How many flowers have fallen to the ground?



Meng Hao Ran was a Chinese poet during the Tang dynasty.
Unsuccessful in his official career, he mainly lived in and wrote about his birthplace.



Calligraphy by Xu bings .

Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
Private European collects ion
The Origo collects ion

United Kingdom, London, Saatchi Gallery, Ink: The Art of China, 19 June - 5 July, 2012, p. 42

Kuo, Jason C., Chinese Ink Painting Now, Distributed Art Publishers, New York, USA; t.mes zone 8, Hong Kong, China, 2010, pp.256-257

Overall in good condition. Overall framed dimensions: 146 by 77.3 cm; 57½ by 77½ in. each
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An internationally acclaimed contemporary artist, Xu bings uses ancient.mes thods of printmaking and calligraphy to explore new dimensions for contemporary Chinese art, and produces seminal artworks that focus on issues of language and meaning. Beginning in 1994, Xu embarked on his Squareword Calligraphy series, which combines the English alphabet into square forms resembling Chinese characters.

Spring Dawn is an English translation of a Chinese poem by Meng Haoran (689-740 C.E.), an influential Tang dynasty poet distinguished for his stylistic conventions of poetry focusing on nature and detailed observations of everyday life. The inscribed poem describes waking up on a spring morning after a storm and lyrically expressing sent.mes nts of love and heartache for spring.