Art World Provocateur To Present Work At ‘Berg
On Monday, April 3, art world provocateur Xu Bing will present work that has garnered international attention and numerous awards at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Center for the Arts.Tuesday, March 21, 2006 01:59 PM
A softspoken iconoclast, Xu Bing will explore how language defines and limits our perception of culture and identity. This presentation is free and open to the public.
On Tuesday, April 4, Xu will work with students in the Center for the Arts.
This lecture and campus visit are made possible through the generous support of the Charles A. and Leona K. Gruber Foundation for the Arts. Xu Bing appears on campus as a part of the Center for Ethics series, The Ethics and Politics of Identity.
Xu Bing’s work as been shown in the 45th Venice Biennial; MOMA, New York; Museum Ludwig, Koln; The Reina Sofia Museum (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia), Madrid; V&A, London; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Sydney Biennial; Kwangju Biennial, Korea; Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; ICC - International Communications Center, Tokyo; P.S. 1, New York.
He has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary art, New York; Joan Miro Foundation (Fundacio Pilari Joan Miro a Mallorca), Spain; ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London; National Gallery of Prague; National Gallery of Beijing; the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..
In 2004, Xu Bing was awarded the first Wales International Visual Art Prize, Artes Mundi, one of the largest international prizes in the world. He also became a Coca-Cola Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. The Ethics and Politics of Identity is a year long series of programs, sponsored by the Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics, about the ethical challenges that surround the changing categories of social, national, and global identities. For more information on the series, or to view the schedule of events for the spring semester, please visit: www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ethics.
