French sculptor creates work reflecting Chinese sensibilities
By Fang Aiqing | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-04-29 15:36
However, he used only plaster to create the third work on show, giving it the look of a hollowed-out Buddha in of traditional Chinese folk style.
Pigeau's gilt plaster work Emptines is also being shown at the exhibition.
For the work, he says he was inspired by cong — a traditional jade cylinder used in religious rituals, with its outer layer being square and the inner layer being round.
The sculpture, which looks like a roofless cube and has a small, rectangular "window" on one side and a mirror at the bottom.
Meanwhile, Pigeau has been living in Dehua, studying the white porcelain techniques and culture there.
His 2017 work Dunhuang is an uneven circular ring with a crack that looks like outline of the reclining Buddha in Dunhuang.