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French sculptor creates work reflecting Chinese sensibilities

By Fang Aiqing | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2019-04-29 15:36

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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.

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