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Image of Chinese Library #16, from the series "Library"

Chinese Library #16, from the series "Library"
Painting

2000
48 x 37 x 1 in. (121.92 x 93.98 x 2.54 cm)

Xiaoze Xie (Guangdong, China, 1966 - ) Primary

Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Oil on panel
Credit Line: Gift of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, in honor of Hung Liu and Jeff Kelly
Accession Number: 2014.01

Exhibition

Encode/Store/Retrieve, December 8, 2023 – April 21, 2024, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

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Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)

In his ongoing series “Library,” Xie explores his long-standing interest in time, memory, and history by carefully depicting archived newspapers, old books, and other analog-based media found in libraries and museums throughout the world. Through painting, photography, printmaking, and installation, Xie interweaves complex ideas associated with the obsolescence of traditional forms of knowledge production and their political resonance today. As Xie observed, “I see books as a material form of something abstract, such as ideology. I have also been fascinated by what people do to books – banning, destroying, glorifying with gold-leaf, or worshipping as ultimate truth.”

Chinese Library #16 features warm tones, which are characteristic of Xie’s early work from the “Library” series. For this work, Xie travelled back to his birthplace in Guangdong Province to paint a section of books from the library at Jieyang Museum.

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