Preface Admission Works "The Invention of Morel" "Neo Prajna-Paramita-Sura" "Experience in Material No.39 Biblioteca" "The Book from the Sky " Participation Artist's Related Events Artists' Talk 9 / 18 (Fri.) Artists' Talk 9 / 25 (Fri.) Artists' Talk 10 / 2 (Fri.) Artists' Talk 10 / 10 (Sat.) Film Showing Catalog
		September 18 (Friday) - October 25 (Sunday), 1998 [Finished] Gallery A, D, Theater
		Works "The Book from the Sky " 1991 XU Bing Although XU Bing's book bound with yarn resembles a classic Chinese book, it is illegible. While it is printed in characters that do not exist, it is appealing because the characters appear bona fide to the casual observer. One can only smile at the artist's useless effort in creating 4,000 "new" Chinese characters. To Japanese who have adopted Chinese characters into their own language, this work might seem rather perplexing. In more recent works, the artist has developed a way of representing the Alphabet in a set of what appears to be Chinese characters, and is using this inverted system of converting European writings into Chinese character writings.