[Quote=Yahoo! News]BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - A mock corpse of Chinese dissident artist Ai WeiWei in an art gallery has caused commotion in a small German town, leading some panicked residents, mistaking the statue for a real body, to alert the police.
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Chinese artist He Xiangyu's "The Death of Marat" featuring Ai Weiwei. (Thomas Frey/AFP/Getty Images)
The life-size sculpture of a dead-looking Ai -- which lies face-down on the floor in front of large glass windows -- has shocked passersby on the street.
"Several people had already called within days of the exhibition going up," said Peter Steger from the police office in Bad Ems, the town where the work can be seen.
The Chinese artist He Xiangyu said he intended to praise Ai WeiWei's efforts to criticize corruption and censorship in the Chinese government despite the threat of imprisonment.
Ai was detained without charge for 81 days earlier this year, a move by China that drew heavy criticism from Western governments.
Ai said on Tuesday that China's communist government had ordered him to pay 15 million yuan ($2.4 million) in taxes and fines allegedly due from the company he works for.
He Xiangyu used actual human hair hand-knotted onto plastic and fiberglass to create the statue's realistic qualities. The statue in Bad Ems is one of three copies. ($1 = 6.355 Chinese Yuan)[/Quote]
Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/sculpture-ai-weiwei-corpse-spooks-german-town-131358390.html[/url]
Haha, his name is Ai WeiWei. Laugh at that yoke.
I'd be surprised too, that looks pretty convincing.
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[QUOTE=Dragoshi1;33091659]They'd alert to a fake corpse but not a child getting hit by cars over and over?[/QUOTE]
They are in Germany. Not China.
Read next time.
[QUOTE=Dragoshi1;33091659]They'd alert to a fake corpse but not a child getting hit by cars over and over?[/QUOTE]
Last I heard, Germany had not yet been annexed to China.
[QUOTE=valkery;33091686]They are in Germany. Not China.
Read next time.[/QUOTE]
The Chinese government still detained him and fined him.
Read next time.
[QUOTE=Conspiracy;33091748]The Chinese government still detained him and fined him.
Read next time.[/QUOTE]
Nooooo... They detained and fined the person who the sculpture was made of, not the sculptor, or the people who called in.
Comprehend next time.
The image looks incredibly photoshopped to me.
I know it's real but it screams it.
What would be perfect, since that body is in a suit, just put a puddle of fake blood under him, then when a passerby looks into the window they see two other men in suits walking out of the room.
BRB, creating super-realistic dead body.
Hyper-realistic mock corpse? Sounds like the start of a bad horror fiction.
That's pretty cool, I like Ron Mueck's hyperrealistic sculptures too, I'm sure those would startle folks as well, but they wouldn't cause people to call the police.
[IMG]http://www.hellishhumor.com/Ron-Mueck1.jpg[/IMG]
Well, at least it wasn't just a bunch of people walking past an actual corpse without doing anything.
Jesus, he is good doing those, things .
Successful artistic troll.
Damn that's a really deep piece actually.
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