Clone05---Birth-dates(Angel Wall) Sculpture

I was born in 1971,Jingdezhen of China.I live and work in Shanghai,Shenzhen and Zhaoqing of GuangDong. the member of IAC (International Academy of Ceramics ,UNESCO) E-mail:xu.hongbo@126.com M.P.:+86 18029835138 The head of the ceramics program of Fine Arts College at Zhaoqing university from 1998Found personal ceramics studio in 1996 ---by positioning himself, Xu Hongbo clearly positioned his artistic act, sensitive to the societal data's. By his approach and the lighting which he proposes, it is to a kind of social acupuncture that he participates, and so, demonstrates in a convincing way the possible space for ceramic, this traditional art, within the contemporary art expression. -------Jacques Kaufmann ,the president of IAC (International Academy of Ceramics ,UNESCO) ---In our age of information, high-speed internet and industrial production, it appears to me that the most important characteristic is that of Reproducing. There seems to be greater value placed on Quantity over Quality. Perhaps it is because Quantity seems absolute while Quality seems relative. Different people define Quality in different ways; Quantity is more objective, a measurable standard that all can agree upon. The quantitythe massbecomes what counts and determines the inherent value. We see this from the results of China Super Girland The New 7 Wonders of the World that appealed to one hundred million people worldwide by getting them to vote on the internet. Cloning for human beings is even considered reasonableand an extreme outcome along the same lines. I use this as a symbol for my works to show the conditions of our times. What is more, the technique of ceramics and the way of installing blend together the ideas, means and materials, to produce both what I desire and what is unexpected.------ Xu Hongbo 27/7/2007
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