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Artist Creates Subway Car That Looks Like a Giant Fish

Apr 14, 2011 – 7:26 AM
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David Moye

David Moye Contributor

An art exhibition in Beijing is hooking people with its featured piece: a huge subway car that looks like a giant fish.

The piece, called "Leviathanation," features a giant fish head made from fiberglass that is stuck in front of a train car, while stuffed animals rest on its head.

The name is a reference to Leviathan, which, according to ML Art Source, was a monstrous sea creature from ancient mythology that was used by Christians as an image of Satan during the Middle Ages.

"Leviathanation" is the work of Huang Yong Ping, a world-renowned Chinese artist who now has French citizenship.

The piece is on display at Tang Contemporary Art as part of an exhibit called "Tracing the Milky Way," which, according to the gallery's website, is "a narrative story about the journey of life" that asks questions such as, how do we live in a world?

Although Huang hasn't commented about the meaning behind the giant train fish, his past work is noted for being politically charged.

For instance, his 2002 piece "Bat Project 2" was a full-scale model of the cockpit section and left wing of an American Lockheed EP-3 spy plane that was filled with taxidermically preserved bats.

The plane in that sculpture is modeled on the one that collided with a Chinese fighter jet in March 2001, killing the Chinese pilot.


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