"What You See Might Not Be Real"

Artist: Chen Wenling
Title: "What You See Might Not Be Real"
Media: Painted Bronze
Dimensions: 95 x 114 x 58 cm (37.4 x 44.9 x 22.9 in.)
Date- 2009

Artist Bio- Chen Wenling, born in 1969, is an artist of Chinese heritage. He is a sculptor who was born in Anxi, a small village in the Fujian Province of China.His family was poor and could not afford to buy him new toys, so he used clay that was really avaliable in his surroundings to make sculptures to play with. From these humble sculpting beginnings came the desire to study art as a profession. He decided to attend the Xiamen Academy of Art and Design, and he graduated in 1991. Not content yet with his education, he studied sculpture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, graduating in 1994.

Art Description- Strong and farting bull represents Wall Street (In Chinese slang, to fart means to bluff or lie) And the man being shoved into the wall is Bernard Madoff, biggest con man of all time. Huge cloud coming out bulls rear not only refers to end of a greedy era but symbolizes danger of virtual bubbles in international financial markets.

http://thedesigninspiration.com/articles/amazing-bull-fart-sculpture-by-chen-wenling/

Connection- Relates to this theme because it has a deeper meaning than what it is shown and represents something bigger than what is initially shown.