Panda poop becomes a hit in the art world
By Zhang Xuanchen |
November 27, 2010, Saturday
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GIANT panda excrement has made a fortune of 300,000 yuan (US$45,079) for nine students and their instructor from southwest China's Sichuan Province, after they used the waste to create a copy of the world-renowned sculpture Venus de Milo.
The latest Chinese, and perhaps the most natural, version of the original ancient Greek statue is a new addition in the art collection of Swiss native Uli Sigg, who has been a fan of Chinese contemporary art for years, reported the Henan Business Daily.
The statue, 60 centimeters high and yellowish brown, has become a big draw at a fund-rising art exhibition at an art museum in Zhengzhou City, capital of Henan Province.
Its creators, a group of nine teenagers under the instruction of a sculptor, Zhu Cheng, come from the giant panda's birthplace, Chengdu City in Sichuan.
Curious about the unique materials used, several people attempted to sniff the statue to check the smell. It also attracted the attention of Sigg, who already has a collection of more than 2,000 pieces of Chinese contemporary art work. He soon decided to take the statue as a new addition.
Sigg said he found the work "full of creativity and innovation" and would take full preservative measures to keep it forever, reported the Henan Business Daily.
The students are not alone in making a profit from the animal's waste. Gifts that included paper, puppets and brush pots which were made from the same material had already hit the shelves of the gift shop at Chengdu's Research Center for Giant Panda Breeding in 2007, and proved popular with visitors.
Huang Xiangming, a staff member from the center, said the center used to dispose of the excrement at a monthly cost of 5,000-8,000 yuan. But now it has become a boost to its income.
An adult panda produces about 20 kilograms of dung each day, and dozens of bamboo-fed pandas in the Chengdu reserve produce up to 200 tons of excrement each year, which makes disposal a challenge, the newspaper said.
The latest Chinese, and perhaps the most natural, version of the original ancient Greek statue is a new addition in the art collection of Swiss native Uli Sigg, who has been a fan of Chinese contemporary art for years, reported the Henan Business Daily.
The statue, 60 centimeters high and yellowish brown, has become a big draw at a fund-rising art exhibition at an art museum in Zhengzhou City, capital of Henan Province.
Its creators, a group of nine teenagers under the instruction of a sculptor, Zhu Cheng, come from the giant panda's birthplace, Chengdu City in Sichuan.
Curious about the unique materials used, several people attempted to sniff the statue to check the smell. It also attracted the attention of Sigg, who already has a collection of more than 2,000 pieces of Chinese contemporary art work. He soon decided to take the statue as a new addition.
Sigg said he found the work "full of creativity and innovation" and would take full preservative measures to keep it forever, reported the Henan Business Daily.
The students are not alone in making a profit from the animal's waste. Gifts that included paper, puppets and brush pots which were made from the same material had already hit the shelves of the gift shop at Chengdu's Research Center for Giant Panda Breeding in 2007, and proved popular with visitors.
Huang Xiangming, a staff member from the center, said the center used to dispose of the excrement at a monthly cost of 5,000-8,000 yuan. But now it has become a boost to its income.
An adult panda produces about 20 kilograms of dung each day, and dozens of bamboo-fed pandas in the Chengdu reserve produce up to 200 tons of excrement each year, which makes disposal a challenge, the newspaper said.
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