Grand Banquet – (Kubo Shunman) Previous Next


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Size: 45 x 189 cm

Museum: Today Art Museum (Beijing, China)

Technique: Sculpture

Lü Shun, born in Xuzhou of Jiangsu Province in 1966, now lives and works in Beijing. Grand Banquet sends a message: In today’s society, the thing with a very normal surface actually hides a treacherous current in so-called normality. On the other hand, from a representational perspective, we can see that the artist replaces and clears up the classic meaning of The Last Super of Leonardo Da Vinci with the‘pig’ image and further tactfully perculates the classic theme of religion and transforms it into a thought about the spiritual circumstance of man today. This is a kind of reflection and criticism of ‘postmodern’, the subject animal ‘pig’ is endowed with more human connotations while ‘pig’ itself only has a symbolic meaning. If we compare The Last Super with Grand Banquet, the links and differences between both are easy to be seen. In Lü Shun’s sculpture Grand Banquet, the absences of Jesus and Judas implies a crisis that human belief is facing now.

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