The present work exhibited at Scheveningen, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Xianfeng! Chinese Avant-garde Sculpture, 2005

As part of 5 unique sets of sculptures that the artist created, the present lot is part of the group titled Contemporary Terracotta Warriors No.5. Yue Minjun created five of these sets of unique sculptures, each comprising of 25 warriors with a different stylistic rendering of the arms, some with their arms crossed in front of their bodies, some with their hands over their ears, and in this instance, with their arms raised. The artist wittily injects contemporaneity through his reinterpretation of the historical terracotta warriors found in the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi, one of China’s most influential emperors. Yue Minjun creates each of his warriors to be identical in order not to exhibit individualism, making a bold statement critiquing the numbing similitude that plagues current society in modern day.