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MECHANICAL BUDDHIST
Filled under: Marius Erhan, Visual arts
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Ever imagined a sculpture of a Buddhist with a mechanical element that would make it move? South-Korean artist Zang Zi Won melted together these two very different areas. While having a pensive face, for example, the sculpture will be activated by a device that moves it. The contrast is even stronger due to the white color of the material and the clean and very complicated robotic device.

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Apparently at the core of the project, the artist is making a statement about decision-making and the boundary between mechanical though and spiritual inspiration.

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“The natural human features of Wang’s ‘post-human’ or ‘post-person’ sculptures with its serene and meditative expression are juxtaposed against the disjointed mechanical components…At the core of Want’s works is the issue of decision making- the emotive human decisions against the coded and system judgments made by machines.”

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And this is how they move:

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