Guest curator Xiaobing Tang offers a look at the U-M Museum of Art’s new exhibit “Multiple Impressions: Contemporary Chinese Woodblock Prints” at 3 p.m. July 31 in A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I.
Trained as a literary scholar in China and the United States, Tang developed the exhibit from experiences as Mellon fellow in 2008. That’s when he immersed himself in the art history and practical skills of making woodblock prints at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.
During the next few years, Tang traveled to artist’s studios to assemble the works for this exhibit, called the largest and most diverse exhibition of contemporary prints to be seen in the United States since 2000. The exhibit, through Oct. 23, presents works by 41 leading printmakers from contemporary China. It reveals the diversity of the contemporary art world in China, the techniques used to make these works, and showcases innovations in both technique and conception.
The exhibit was organized by the UMMA with the cooperation and support of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. It is made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; and at U-M the Center for Chinese Studies, Confucius Institute and Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
