Sheng Qi China 1965

Sheng Qi and Diana Wiegersma, 2009

Sheng Qi and Diana Wiegersma, 2008

Photo: T. Wiegersma

An interview with Sheng Qi, By William Corwin

A shipment of bronze astronauts has just arrived at Sheng Qi's hangar-like studio.
There are ten half-scale and four life-size sculptures.
They don't stick out all that much, surrounded by giant paintings of Lhasa, protesters, execution squads, busts of Mao, a drum set (hallmark of artistic coolness), and, at the center of the room, a low table with a miniature Tian'amen Gate surrounded by toy-like tanks, one or two of them overturned.
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Sheng Qi on the past, present and future of China, By David Green - Special to GlobalPost

BEIJING — Leaning against a wall of the F2 Gallery in the east end of Beijing's Dashanzi art district is a painting of an attractive Chinese public security official.
She has an austere pale beauty, accentuated by the image's black and grey coloring, but the real kicker is the bright-red 100-yuan bill she coyly holds in front of her crotch.
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Return To Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later, By Barry Petersen - CBS Interactive

Artist Sheng Qi (right) said of the Tank Man, "Compared to 4 tanks, the man is tiny, but he is powerful."
Sheng is called the "Four Finger Artist" - after the Tiananmen massacre, he cut off a finger as a kind of protest, then fled to London, where he first saw the Tank Man picture.
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