![]() ![]() ![]() “The cluster of rocks have come from nine separate regions in China and have been arranged with flowers and little ceramic figures, houses and animals made by the artist to represent a Utopia, where people live in perfect harmony with nature. Xu’s version of the tale involves a fisherman and so the sculpture utilizes a pond on the estate, adorned with rocks and ceramic ornaments. It coincided with Sotheby’s Beyond Limits outdoor sculpture exhibition. ![]() But when the traveler attempts to find his or her way back to the city, it is nowhere to be found.Īrtist Xu Bing tapped into that fable with an installation at Chatsworth last year, Tao Hua Yuan: A Lost Village Utopia. It’s a story found in cultures across the planet: a traveler finds a magnificent city, a utopia. ![]()
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