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產品資訊
Dedicated to sharing visual culture with the world, M+ offers a wide selection of art prints in various formats, including print, poster, and postcard. Each piece has been chosen from our collection and is currently displayed in the museum.
This postcard features Book From The Sky by Xu Bing, part of the M+ Sigg Collection , Hong Kong. Serving as a quintessential museum keepsake, it can be displayed at home, the office, or wherever visual culture will is well received. All M+ postcards are printed in Hong Kong with Soy Ink to avoid print or pen bleed, and are environmentally friendly.
This postcard features Book From The Sky by Xu Bing, part of the M+ Sigg Collection , Hong Kong. Serving as a quintessential museum keepsake, it can be displayed at home, the office, or wherever visual culture will is well received. All M+ postcards are printed in Hong Kong with Soy Ink to avoid print or pen bleed, and are environmentally friendly.
About Artwork
Book from the Sky combines three elements of great importance to Xu Bing: books, scripts, and the printing process. Starting in 1987, Xu, trained as a printmaker, created over four thousand false Chinese characters based on the character-making rules of the Kangxi Dictionary and the Song typeface commonly used in official documents. Over the next four years, he followed the procedure of movable type printing, from type-founding to typesetting,and complied with the logic and structure of books as well as the design of stitch-boundbooks.He ultimately created 120 four-volume collections of ‘ancient books’—real books that cannot be understood by any reader—presented in handmade walnut wood boxes. Book from the Sky directly comments on China’s social institutions and cultural context of the 1980s, from the perspectives of textual and linguistic systems and knowledge production and dissemination.
Size: 14.8 x 10.5 cm (A6)
Materials: L.H Symbol Card C1S 360gsm Premium White (793-36050), Elemental Chlorine free (ECF), Acid free, Biodegradable, heavy metal absence, recyclable, ISO 9706 Long Life Certificate, FSC Certified
Print: Off-set print
Origin: Europe / Hong Kong
Care: Post or display proudly.
Book from the Sky combines three elements of great importance to Xu Bing: books, scripts, and the printing process. Starting in 1987, Xu, trained as a printmaker, created over four thousand false Chinese characters based on the character-making rules of the Kangxi Dictionary and the Song typeface commonly used in official documents. Over the next four years, he followed the procedure of movable type printing, from type-founding to typesetting,and complied with the logic and structure of books as well as the design of stitch-boundbooks.He ultimately created 120 four-volume collections of ‘ancient books’—real books that cannot be understood by any reader—presented in handmade walnut wood boxes. Book from the Sky directly comments on China’s social institutions and cultural context of the 1980s, from the perspectives of textual and linguistic systems and knowledge production and dissemination.
Size: 14.8 x 10.5 cm (A6)
Materials: L.H Symbol Card C1S 360gsm Premium White (793-36050), Elemental Chlorine free (ECF), Acid free, Biodegradable, heavy metal absence, recyclable, ISO 9706 Long Life Certificate, FSC Certified
Print: Off-set print
Origin: Europe / Hong Kong
Care: Post or display proudly.
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