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Ghosts Pounding the Wall
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Artist: Xu Bing
Date:
1990 - 1991
Medium: Mixed media installation: paper, dirt, and ink rubbing of the Great Wall
Dimensions: 32 m long x 15 m tall
Event: Chinese History
Motif:
Remembrance
Ghosts Pounding the Wall is a monumental work that pushes the technical and cultural boundaries of the craft of printing. Using the tradition of relief rubbing, Xu Bing transformed the work into a relic itself, through the act of making rubbings of an already existing cultural relic, in this case the Great Wall. As a monument to the past, Ghosts Pounding the Wall reminds viewers of the threats to the continuity of Chinese culture in modern times. -- Johnson Chang
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