Mr. Pinocchio - Nordart22 (1 of 5)
From the exhibition catalogue:
"During a trip to Europe, Liu Ruowang bought a Pinocchio toy as a gift to his child. After telling the story of Pinocchio, the words "puppet" and "lie" continued to torment him. In 2019, he began the sculpture group "Mr Pinocchio". The artist uses extraordinary spatial scale, full of symbolism and metaphors, to express problematic relationships in our modern society. With Pinocchio's character at the centre and a group of contemporaries marching unaware in the endless circle,
the manipulator and manipulated reverse their conventional roles. The soulless "people" have lost control over the soulless "thing". It is becoming impossible to jump out of the strange circle of control and manipulation by "things" in modern society where materialism and money worship prevail. The artist warns people about the seamless lies that encourage material desires, to shake off the shackles of materialism and return to the authentic state of life. Liu hopes to inspire people to think about the origin and nature of lies. Who is the puppeteer? Can manipulated people recognize the lies and, if they do, have they got the will to withstand the puppet's manipulation?"
Mr. Pinocchio - Nordart22 (1 of 5)
From the exhibition catalogue:
"During a trip to Europe, Liu Ruowang bought a Pinocchio toy as a gift to his child. After telling the story of Pinocchio, the words "puppet" and "lie" continued to torment him. In 2019, he began the sculpture group "Mr Pinocchio". The artist uses extraordinary spatial scale, full of symbolism and metaphors, to express problematic relationships in our modern society. With Pinocchio's character at the centre and a group of contemporaries marching unaware in the endless circle,
the manipulator and manipulated reverse their conventional roles. The soulless "people" have lost control over the soulless "thing". It is becoming impossible to jump out of the strange circle of control and manipulation by "things" in modern society where materialism and money worship prevail. The artist warns people about the seamless lies that encourage material desires, to shake off the shackles of materialism and return to the authentic state of life. Liu hopes to inspire people to think about the origin and nature of lies. Who is the puppeteer? Can manipulated people recognize the lies and, if they do, have they got the will to withstand the puppet's manipulation?"