My New Favorite Artist

http://www.chenwenling.com/

http://sweet-station.com/blog/2011/09/chen-wenling/

http://beautifuldecay.com/2012/01/20/chen-wenling/


Someone shared the What You See Is Real sculpture on Facebook.  Of course in that maddening way people have on Facebook, they just share it without explaining what it is or where it came from, but Google was my friend or at least not an enemy.

This sculpture is by a Chinese artist named Chen Wenling.  He does these wild, gigantic full color bizarre sculptures.

What You See Is Real was more descriptively called The Amazing Bull Fart sculpture.  Bernie Madhoff is being squashed against a wall by a bull that is being propelled by a massive fart.  Bernie has his own horns and one of his shoes came off and is laying on the ground beneath them.  In China, one of these websites says, farting means bluffing.

I'm dying to know how and of what he makes these things and to have the other sculptures explained.  Like what's up with that fish woman?  What's going on with the shark biting the hippo that has an alligator in its mouth biting a guy and they're all hanging from ropes and the one with the shark, hippo and alligator laying there with blood pouring from their mouths- is that a sequel?

I'm also astonished that this is all coming from China.  His art screams freedom and that's not something I associated with China.  I have to majorly adjust my ideas about China.

http://www.chinaartnetworks.com/feature/wen16.shtml