A friend posted a photo of this sculpture on Facebook this morning. The installation is by Chen Wen Ling and is part of his solo exhibit, “Emergency Exit,” at the Joy Gallery in Beijing (click on photo for larger version):
It is supposed to represent the financial crisis. The bull is Wall Street or the markets more broadly, and the horned creature nailed to the wall there is Bernie Madoff, according to various reports about the piece.
The English title for the work is “What You See Might Not Be Real.” The artist has fun with the Chinese title, “fang pi.” In Chinese that literally means to fart, but as slang it means to bluff or lie, according to this blog.
David Kurtz
David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.