By Lance Esplund Published: September 4, 2008 |
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A Gray Area From a Red Revolution
Yet greeting visitors at "Art and China's Revolution" is "New Mao" (2003), a grouping of three larger-than-life stainless-steel figurines of Mao, each with his arm raised and standing on a pedestal. Created by Chinese artist Qu Guangci (b. 1969), the figures are bland, illustrative likenesses, shining, highly polished, cookie-cutter sculptures, à la Jeff Koons, that were inspired by officially sanctioned Cult-of-Mao statues — a "New Mao" that, like the old Mao, has no aesthetic merit. |
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