Aerial Pagoda

• Bronze
• Signed LI Chen, edition 7/8
• China
• Contemporary
• 2010
• height 168   length 47,5   depth 30 cm

Aerial Pagoda

Tribute is paid to a distinctly Chinese architectural element in Li Chen's “Aerial Pagoda”. A human figure raises the seventiered structure, which commands respect and is a symbolic beacon of instruction, heavenward with his enormous arm. One cannot help but ask: is this a tower of light or a stairway for an immortal’s ascent to heaven? Could it represent a Taoist mountain peak or some celestial wonder ?