"English square characters" is a new writing form designed by Bing Xu. It looks like Chinese, but it is actually English. Different from the "pseudo-characters" in gobbledygook, "English square characters" are readable "real characters", which interweaves China's calligraphy art with English letter writing, and derives a brand-new concept of writing language. The audience's block, doubt and confusion in reading can be alleviated by a brain teaser-like epiphany in this work. Thus, the west has the oriental calligraphy culture.
After creating the English Chinese character system, Bing Xu imitated the form of "literacy class" by means of installation art, and turned the exhibition site into a classroom, and made English Chinese character teaching videos, English Chinese character calligraphy textbooks and "Painting Red" exercise books to cooperate with the classroom. When the audience came to the exhibition hall, they entered a learning place. On 20 15, Bing Xu and Founder Font Library jointly released the concept art font "Founder Xu Bingying Style". As a result, Bing Xu's artistic concept has been further implanted into people's lives.
Bing Xu:?
1955 was born in Wenling, Zhejiang, China, and settled in Beijing with his parents when he was two years old. Graduated from high school in' 74, jumped the queue in mountainous areas and rural areas in' 76, began to publish works in exhibitions in' 77, and was admitted to the printmaking department of Central Academy of Fine Arts on 8 1. 1987 He stayed in school to teach and obtained a master's degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. In the same year, he began to create his work "Learning from the World".
1988 was first exhibited in the "Bing Xu Prints Exhibition" held by China Art Museum, which aroused widespread concern and discussion in the cultural circles at home and abroad. 1990, he accepted the invitation of the New University of Wisconsin and moved to the United States as an honorary artist. Now she is an independent artist, living and working in New York.
Because of his original creation of "New English Calligraphy", he won the MacArthur Award commonly known as "American Nobel Prize" in the art world. The MacArthur Award focuses on people's creativity and contribution to society.