NordArt 25 VI | Büdelsdorf, Germany
"Mr Pinocchio" by the Chinese artist Liu Ruowang.
Most of Liu Ruowangs art work are so huge, that it doesn't make sense only to have them as part of the exhibition for just one year.
This group of sculptures was first part of NordArt in 2023, where the catalog wrote the following:
"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 recognise the lies and, if they do, have they got the will to withstand the puppet's manipulation? "
NordArt 25 VI | Büdelsdorf, Germany
"Mr Pinocchio" by the Chinese artist Liu Ruowang.
Most of Liu Ruowangs art work are so huge, that it doesn't make sense only to have them as part of the exhibition for just one year.
This group of sculptures was first part of NordArt in 2023, where the catalog wrote the following:
"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 recognise the lies and, if they do, have they got the will to withstand the puppet's manipulation? "