PRESENTATION BY XIAOZE XIE, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD VINOGRAD,
CHRISTENSEN FUND PROFESSOR OF ASIAN ART, STANFORD UNIVERSITY. FOLLOWED
BY A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH DR. YU HU, EXECUTIVE DEAN, TSINGHUA
INSTITUTION FOR CULTURE AND CREATIVITY, PROFESSOR &
ADMINISTRATIVE DEAN OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION, TSINGHUA
UNIVERSTIY. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED FROM 5:00 PM.
Xiaoze Xie will present his work-in-progress made during his artist
residency in the summer of 2017 at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, a
historic site of Buddhist art on China's Silk Road. Xie's
research-based project focuses on Cave 17, or the Library Cave, once a
depository of manuscripts, scrolls, paintings and textiles dating from
the 4th to the 11th century. The relics from the cave were bought,
stolen and fragmented since the cave was discovered in 1900, and are
now dispersed in collections around the world. Xie's long scroll of
brush and ink drawings combines diagrams, calligraphy, and quoted
images to cast his imaginations of the now empty cave, and to confront
its history of loss, absence, and trauma. A work in its own right, the
scroll also serves as a proposal for contemporary
sculptures/installations to be realized in the future.
Xiaoze Xie is the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor in Art at
Stanford. He has exhibited extensively in the US and Asia. His work is
in the permanent collection of such institutions as the Museum of Fine
Arts Houston, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose
Museum of Art and Oakland Museum of California. Xie received the
Painter and Sculptor’s Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and artist awards from Phoenix Art
Museum and Dallas Museum of Art. "Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie" at the Denver
Art Museum is on view through July 8, 2018.
Richard Vinograd is the Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art at
STANFORD. He is the author of B_oundaries of the Self: Chinese
Portraits, 1600-1900_; co-author of _Chinese Art & Culture._
_Co-sponsored by the Tsinghua Institute of Culture and Creativity,
and the Dunhuang Foundation_
_Image: Xiaoze Xie's work-in-progress at the Dunhuang Academy, 2017_
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