WHAT IS POLIT-SHEER-FORM？ Polit-Sheer-Form Office (PSFO) is an art group founded by artists Hong Hao, Xiao Yu, Song Dong, Liu Jianhua,and curator and critic Leng Lin in 2005. PSFO concern themselves with the world and focus on the construction of the mental world. They think, talk, travel around and have fun, etc., trying to transform the political, cultural, economic life and everyday life into pure forms by their boundary-blurring practice. In2005 PSFO had their first exhibition Only One Wall at Beijing Commune, and in the very next year, it travelled to Art Space, Sydney. PSFO carry on theirdiscussions in various places they’ve spent their time together, such as factories, farms, schools, famoussites of China’s civil war, places of interest, artist studios, art galleries, museums, sports sites, railwaystations, docks, airports, hotels, restaurants, tea houses, bathhouses, recreation centers, departments stores and temporary stalls.

After all Book from the Ground is a six-year old (and still going) project so some of the research material and works in progress have already had some exposure: Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (Pictograms - the loneliness of signs. 2006); MoMA New York (Automatic Update. 2007); and the Eslite Gallery in Taipei ( Xu Bing: From Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground 2012) which traced the evolution of the project back from Xu Bing’s early ground-breaking work Book from the Sky. In April 2012 Guangxi Normal University Publishing House published Book from the Ground in Mainland China.

Book from the Ground is an exhibition based on a book. This is of course no ordinary book. It is quite a visual book composed entirely out of pictographs, symbols and icons, but a rather small book just the same. After all Book from the Ground is a six-year old (and still going) project so some of the research material and works in progress have already had some exposure: Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart (Pictograms - the loneliness of signs. 2006); MoMA New York (Automatic Update. 2007); and the Eslite Gallery in Taipei ( Xu Bing: From Book from the Sky to Book from the Ground 2012) which traced the evolution of the project back from Xu Bing’s early ground-breaking work Book from the Sky. In April 2012 Guangxi Normal University Publishing House published Book from the Ground in Mainland China.

Text: Mathieu Borysevicz and Ouyang Chun Translator and Chinese Proof Reader: Yuan Fuca Photography of bronze works: JJPHOTO Photography of early works: Ouyang Chun Graphic design: Taki He Printed by praix Supported by MABSOCIETY, Shanghai Produced for the exhibition Ouyang Chun, Detritus September 2014 - November 2014 at BANK, Shanghai MABSOCIETY © 2014

Produced by BANK/MABSOCIETY Curator, Editor: Mathieu Borysevicz Graphic Design: Liu Yongjie Translation: Sophie Huang, Daniel Nieh, Qianwen Yang Proof Reading: Mathieu Borysevicz, Qianwen Yang Photography of art works: Tian Ye Photography of exhibitions: Alessandro Wang Special thanks to Tian Ye，Ji Chengqian，Zhong Song , The Liu brothers , Momo Frame Production Manager: Liu Yongjie Printed by Artron Printing Corporation Shanghai （using earth-friendly inks）

Jin Shan, Artist Catalog 120 pages, hardcover, English and Chinese Price：200 RMB Copyright © 2015 by the Artist Jin Shan, BANK/MABSOCIETY Text Contributor: Barbara Pollack, Maya Kramer Designer: BANK Photographer: Alex Wang, Qian Rong Translator: Alvin Li, Esther Zeng Proof Reader: Amelia Farley, Maya Kramer, Qianwen Yang, Colin Xu BANK/MABSOCIETY is pleased to announce the release of Jin Shan's latest artist catalog, completed with the insightful articles written by art critic Barbara Pollack and artist Maya Kramer, combing the artist's creating context, highlighting the important pieces in various stages, and exploring the related works in his solo show at BANK from Nov.12, 2015 to Jan.06, 2016.