'Travelling to the Wonderland', a new installation at the V&A's John Madejski Garden by artist Xu Bing, conjures the ancient Chinese story 'The Peach Blossom Spring', in which a man finds an idyllic village, cut off from the rest of the world

西方人所谓的香格里拉-一个生活缓慢而甜蜜的山区天堂-香格里拉，也是藏传佛教徒所称的香格里拉，许多中国人称之为“桃花源之地”。这是一种理想，常常在迫在眉睫的威胁时期被召唤出来。中国艺术家徐冰在一座新的装置中再次召唤了它，它在V号上旅行到仙境。

徐冰从中国五个不同的地方把九块不同的岩石拼凑成一幅神奇的微型山景，四周点缀着小小的陶瓷房屋，围绕着花园的水景，变成了一个巨大的，在一天中的某些时候，云雾笼罩着湖面。正如宾所言，他在这里以一种轻松的方式玩过规模游戏，它的安装介于假山和不朽的土地艺术之间，这是一种真正的景观，但比你所见过的任何一个模范村庄都要神秘得多。

这是一个阿卡迪亚，对人与自然之间不正常关系的警告和对V的直接反应。

这个大师展拥有一系列引人注目的山水画，其中一些画在巨大的卷轴上。正如展览的附文所建议的那样，这些画不是真实的地方，而是想象中的地方，山脉以有节奏的起伏将画卷起来，融入云层。有一种正在工作的宇宙秩序的图片。

徐冰解释说，在中国风景艺术中，每一块不同的石头都代表着不同的风格，并暗示他的作品是对这一传统的“2.5”维度。这些巨大的卷轴上的艺术并不意味着立刻就会出现，而是被“滚动”、穿行、一片片地拍摄，每一幅都揭示了新的风景。正如Bing所说，这是一个令人惊讶的现代电影效果，也是他在这里的目标。

在我们谈话的时候，徐冰检查了安装情况，说还有一些细节需要处理，房屋需要修整。他们中的一些人会有灯光和液晶显示屏，这表明这不是一些早期的幻想，乌托邦需要电缆，或者这座山的隐蔽处隐藏得不够远。

Xu Bing carted slices of nine different rocks from five different places in China and arranged them here to create a magical miniature mountainscape, drawing elements from Chinese landscape scrolls

Tiny ceramic houses sit atop rocks, surrounded by a misty lake

Hear the tale behind the artwork from Xu Bing, pictured with components of the installation in his Beijing studio

A corner of tranquility in Xu Bing's installation, where every detail is considered

Watch the installation being assembled inside the John Madejski Garden

'I think today's people really wish to find a natural, quiet, egalitarian and harmonius place to live', says the artist

At night, Travelling to the Wonderland is lit by blue light and fog rolls across the scene. It stands in stark contrast to the Victorian façade of the V&A

Bing's work is a direct response to the V&A's Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900 exhibition, which boasts a remarkable series of landscape paintings, some on enormous scrolls

An excerpt from an album of landscapes by Gong Xian, 1671. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

A mountainous landscape by Gong Xian, 1671. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 A speckled landscape from an album by Gong Xian, 1671. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

A small house sits in the foreground of this landscape by Gong Xian, 1671. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

 Another landscape by Gong Xian, 1671. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

'Farewell to Hao Xuanming', by Hu Shunchen, 1122. Courtesy Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts

'Cloudy Mountains', by Mi Youren, circa 1140. Coutresy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

'Prosperous Sozhou', by Xu Yang, 1759. Courtesy Liaoning Provincial Museum

'Temple Among Snowy Hills', early 13th century. Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

'Bare Willows and Distant Mountains', by Ma Yuan, late 12th century. Courtesy Museum of FIne Arts Boston

A scenic landscape by Gong Xian, 1671. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

'Saying Farewell at Xunyang', by Qiu Ying, circa first half of 16th century. Courtesy The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

keywords:Xu Bing, V&A, Wonderland, Chinese, Masterpieces, sculpture, garden, John Madejski, Victoria and Albert

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