These are the few pigs I sculpted.
So much FUN to create for such a tragedy. So ironic. I did about 5 or 6 piggys.
As part of my friend, Jane Appleby’s birthday celebrations on March 1st, I joined her at the Gordon Smith Art Gallery to participate in a workshop to sculpt pigs. 16,000 clay pigs were needed for a project by Gu Xiong. A slide show explaining the travesty Gu Xiong was bringing to the attention of many here, started in his home province of Zhejiang , 60 miles from Shanghai, became the subject of public and media scrutiny after more than 16,000 dead pigs were found in tributaries of the city’s river, the Huangpu, a source of tap water for the people living in the area. To read more about the incident go here
The Gordon Smith Gallery and Gu Xiong worked with provincial schools to recreate the 16,000 sculpted pigs of clay for the installation art piece.
I don’t know if they reached the goal of 16,000 but I’m sure it will feel like it when the show opens on May 7th.
The opening reception is May 9th from 7-9pm.
Footnote:
Professor Gu Xiong, a multi-media artist from China now lives in Canada, works with painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, digital imagery, text, performance art and installation. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including more than forty solo exhibitions and three public art commissions. For more
