Chinese artist Zhang Huan's sculpture, Three Heads Six Arms, being installed at Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza in Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, May 4, 2010.
According to Zhang, “When I saw these fragments in Lhasa, a mysterious power impressed me. They’re embedded with historical and religious traces, just like the limbs of a human being.” The fingers of Buddhist deities are considered highly symbolic because they convey different spiritual meanings through various hand gestures, or mudras...............................
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Ai Weiwei is a successful artist and a vocal critic of the Chinese government
Artist, architect, curator and prolific blogger, Ai Weiwei’s practise defies easy categorisation, except perhaps for a recurring delight in play and provocation. Ai often draws on the materials of the past for his work, transforming them through assembly, remoulding, or sheer destruction, into present day commentary.
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