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...series of porcelain busts, hand-cast and decorated in Ming and Qing Dynasty motifs. But it was an Australia Council?funded trip back to China the following year that equipped him for stardom. There, in a workshop outside Beijing, he became skilled in the 700-year-old techniques of cloisonn?, a painstaking process of copper-wire enameling which he applied to full body-casting. Human human?lotus, cloisonn? figure I, 2000-01, took out Australia's inaugural National Sculpture Prize. With a solo show at New York's Asia Society in 2002, Ah Xian's commercial cachet soared, with prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paint the West Red | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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