Li Chen : Contemporary art
Lord of Wind
- Bronze
- Signed LI Chen, edition 5/8
- China
- Contemporary
- 2008
- height 187 length 103 depth 128 cm
Lord of Wind
Tribute is paid to a distinctly Chinese architectural element in Li Chen's “Lord of Wind”. 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 ?