Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin's Head
Gao, Qiang; Gao, Shen
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Date
2010Description
Overall view against facade of the Ace Museum; Previously exhibited at the Vancouver Sculpture Biennale (January 2010). With a vivid chrome finish, the metal sculpture is constructed from horizontal sections that were purposefully staggered, representing his broken legacy. Atop is a very playful inclusion of baby (with Mao's head) holding a balance stick on top of Lenin’s protruding head, as if walking a tight rope of his risky Marxist ideals. The style has been called "cynical realism." Gao Shen (Zhen) and Gao Qiang, both born in Jinan, Shandong Province are Beijing-based artists who work together, known as the Gao Brothers (Gao shi xiong di). They are also authors, photographers, and movie producer-directors. [Biography from LCNAF]
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
allegory, contemporary (1960 to present), cycles or series, rulers and leaders, Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924, Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976, Marxist, Communist, Communism, Twenty-first century
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