Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, December 14 – This is the 5th and I think the last of the Chubby Women statue series around Songshan Lake. There are many more in the series in other places though. This is the series by the sculptor named Xu Hong Fei, from Guangzhou. You can see the other four on my blog here: http://www.myownchinesebrocade.com/picture-a-day-1?tag=Xu+Hong+Fei
Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, October 5 - I’ve posted three others of the Chubby Women series by Guangzhou artist Xu Hong Fei. We’ve seen her walking a dog (Feb 5), holding a baby (April 11), lying with a cat (June 24), and now we have her playing golf – only she doesn’t have a golf club that is part of the statue. It doesn’t seem to be broken, it looks like there never was one; I thought she should have one, so I gave her a bamboo club for the picture :-) If you want to see the other three statues, follow this link: http://www.myownchinesebrocade.com/picture-a-day-1?tag=Xu+Hong+Fei I think there is still one more to go! www.myownchinesebrocade.com
Life in China 2016: A Picture A Day, June 25 – I’ve posted a couple of the Chubby Women series by Guangzhou artist Xu Hong Fei. Here’s one more that is along the shoreline of Songshan Lake.
I’d like to share another one of Xu Hongfei’s Chubby Women sculpture series that are along the shoreline of Songshan Lake. This one is called “Mother and Child”; There are quite a few in the series with mothers and babies or small children, but I think this one shows a much more tender side where the others are more “fun.” The description on the base says how a child needs his mother’s loving care in order to grow up healthy.
I found a great video on You Tube (13 minutes long) that shows footage from Xu Hongfei’s 2013-2015 Chubby Women International Sculpture Tour with exhibtions in Guangzhou, Florence and Sicily in Italy, Australia, London, Singapore, and Beijing, and also shows him working in his studio. It’s fun to see the people interacting with the sculptures. I think I’ll have to go sit by some of these sculptures on a busy weekend and see what people do :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8anOkimBc6M&nohtml5=False
The first sculpture picture I shared was on Feb 5th http://www.myownchinesebrocade.com/picture-a-day-1?tag=statues
Life in China: A Picture a Day 2016, Feb 5 - I have seen three sculptures around the lake that have caught my eye as something different for China. Usually, women are portrayed as very petite, so I was curious about these. I have been looking for information about them and was so excited that I finally found it! It turns out that they are a part of a well-known series, from 2010, by Xu Hong Fei 許鴻飛, president of the Guangzhou Sculpture Academy. He did the series because he wanted to challenge Western ideals of beauty. “His ‘Chubby Women’ are not limited by their size and enjoy active and fulfilling lives.” The statue series have made a couple world tours and have been loved! So, here is the first one I saw at Songshan Lake, titled “Under the Sun.” As I explore more of the lake, I expect to find more statues!
