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Liu Jianhua, Sculptor of the Economic Crisis

Artist Liu Jianhua’s (刘建华) latest gallery showing in Italy at Galleria Continua. “Unreal Scene” (2008) is a model of Shanghai made out of poker chips and dice. Photo by Cinghialino, Flickr Creative Commons. More from this and pr... ...full story at Mutant Palm

from Mutant Palm on Tue, Jan 06 2009

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