SCULPTURE
September 1999 Vol. 18 No. 7
by Glen Harper
But other works are evidently very popular I saw a family picnic among and on top of the large bronze "New Birth" series by Hong Kong's Van Lao, works that seem to be huge seed pods suspended at the point of bursting into life. I also saw a group of tourists having their picture taken in a central city park with Australian Adrian Mauriks's pure white Garden of Eden undeterred by the cheerfully kitchy pessimism of the work's rubber-stamped messages that pronounce human and ecological ills. Visitors ignored the pure white "Merlion" statue just beyond the park, and the symbol of the city and normally a tourist icon.
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