Kapoor's first China solo stuns in Beijing

Symphony for a Beloved Sun, the blood-red installation dominating the atrium of the CAFA Art Museum, is another piece that has prompted many to gaze, ponder and discuss.

Featuring a giant sun-like red disk supported by two black iron tripods, the "symphony" is played as two conveyers slowly transport crimson wax blocks upward.

Momentum gradually builds as the blocks near the conveyers' tip, and the climax doesn't come until the blocks plummet and kiss the ground — already strewn with piles of blood-red bricks of wax.

"The project struck me as the blood of those heroic martyrs in my history book when they were slaughtered during protests," said Zhu Hanru, a third-grader.

The showpieces stunned Chinese art professionals as well. "It's awesome. And I mistook it as a creation of some Japanese artist. It reminded me of the Japanese national flag," said a visual designer who declined to reveal his name.