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PATTERNS AND PATHWAYS: CUI FEI GET TO KNOW: CUI FEI 6 EIN FANTASIETEXT AUS 6 CUI FEI 6 6 INTERVIEW WITH CUI FEI 6 NATURE AND CALLIGRAPHY 6 CUI FEI
TRACING THE ORIGIN 6 TAKING ANOTHER LOOK 6 6 ARTIST OF THE MONTH: 6 6 A LOOK AT CUI FEI 6 SEVEN ENIGMATIC 6 REASON'S CLUE EXHIBIT 6 WHERE BRIEF WORKS 6 CUI FEI AT GALLERY 456
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AN INTERVIEW WITH
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CUI FEI by editors
Cui Fei: Manuscript of Nature VII_III, 2012, thorns on paper, 15 1/4 by 12 1/8 inches. Courtesy Chambers Fine Art.
Artists like Gu Wenda and Xu Bing have made the mystifying use of false Chinese characters a metaphor for the power and limitations of human language. To this Cui Fei, who came to the U.S. in 1996 after graduating from the China Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou, has added a direct link to the natural origins of writing and systematic thought. Her works resemble exquisitely printed or inscribed sheets of paper, but are in fact created with precisely positioned twigs, thorns, seeds and tendrils-or, sometimes, with a nod to industrialized life, photogram images or deftly twisted wire. Maybe Hanne Darboven could read them.
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