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Feng Yigui´s Monumental Sculptures

Umělec 1997/3

01.03.1997

Lenka Lindaurová | artist | en cs

It may be hard to understand the fate of Chinese sculptor Feng Yigui since all we know about him is that he was born in 1942 in Si Chuan province where he graduated from an art school. Then he served in Chinese military for eight years. On his return to civilian life, he entered post-gradual studies and in 1976 he was involved in erecting the gigantic Mao Memorial.
For the most part, Yigui made figurative works. It wasn´t until the ´90s that he got involved in creating monuments on the state´s request. While he was making objects in bigger scale before, the state requests allowed him to work on giants like a 170 meters long Lying Budha sculpture.
Yigui died in 1995 just when the system started to loosen up its grip on art a little bit.





01.03.1997
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