NEW YORK – A major loan exhibition of contemporary Chinese art currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be closing soon on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Consisting of 70 works created by 35 artists born in China, “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China” demonstrates how China’s ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path.

Highlights include Xu Bing’s dramatic Book from the Sky (ca. 1988), an installation filling an entire gallery; Family Tree (2000), a set of vivid photographs by Zhang Huan in which his facial features—and his identity—are obscured gradually by physiognomic texts that are inscribed directly onto his face; and Map of China (2006) by Ai Weiwei, which is constructed entirely of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples.

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