Coco Fusco's Tin Man of the Twenty-First Century arrives at China's Anren Biennale Courtesy of Tettero, Anren Biennale 2019 © Coco Fusco/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Trump has touched down in China—or at least Coco Fuscos version of him has. The artist's Tin Man of the Twenty-First Century has invited both laughter and criticism at the second Anren Biennale in Sichuan province, which opened earlier this month. The work depicts the US president as a ten-foot-tall rendition of the Tin Man—the (literally) heartless figure who tags along with Dorothy and her gang in the The Wizard of Oz. In the midst of a fruitless trade war spurred by the sculptures subject, its arrival on Chinese soil speaks to a dead end fiscal journey down a most discomforting yellow brick road paved by faulty foreign policy. Fusco says that Trump's assumption of power has affected international affRead More – Source
