Zhan Huan (born 1965) is a big player in the wave of modern artists becoming more accepted and promoted in the traditional land of China. I found the images above and below of his massive Confucius statue called Q Confucius No. 2. I was intrigued, so I dug out some other bits and bobs of his too.
He works in sculpture, performance art, paint and photography. A well rounded weirdo. Zhang Huan doesn’t mind wearing clothes made out of meat and likes getting naked whenever he can.
Huan now lives and works in New York and Shanghai.
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China certainly isn’t the easiest country in the world to enter and navigate by all accounts. But with the slowly opening door of post-communist capitalism we may all get to walk in Confucius’ foot prints soon enough.
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