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project[0]="<p class='featuretag'>Steven Beyer (<a href='http:\/\/www.beyerart.com' target='_blank' class='body'>BeyerArt.com<\/a>) works in partnership with individual artists throughout the world, often collaborating with museums, non-profit organizations, and commercial galleries. Based in New York, Beyer utilizes the best fabricators in the world to meet a project's needs for specific materials and fabrication techniques. Having worked with us in the past, he came to Laran first. We were contracted to enlarge and produce 18 four-ft. sets of Zhu Wei's China China.<\/p>"

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project[1]="<p class='featuretag'>First we scanned the figures and enlarged them.<\/p>"

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project[2]="<p class='featuretag'>The pair of 4-ft foam replicas were carved on our CNC machine.<\/p>"

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project[3]="<p class='featuretag'>Urethane rubber molds were made from which waxes were cast.<\/p>"

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project[4]="<p class='featuretag'>The hollow waxes are gated, then invested in slurry and sand. Two bottom halves and one upper-figure half are hanging in the ceramic shell department drying. <\/p>"

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project[5]="<p class='featuretag'>After the aluminum pour, the ceramic investment is removed and the metal cleaned and assembled.<\/p>"

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project[6]="<p class='featuretag'>Six finished figures are being sandblasted for the paint process.<\/p>"

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project[7]="<p class='featuretag'>Since the aluminum figures could not be patinated the way the bronze sets were, Our team had to research and create a special recipe.<\/p>"

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project[8]="<p class='featuretag'>Some red figures mid-paint process.<\/p>"

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project[9]="<p class='featuretag'>A finished set of green figures mounted on an annodized aluminum base.<\/p>"

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project[10]="<p class='featuretag'>A finished set of red and black figures mounted on an annodized aluminum base.<\/p>"

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project[11]="<p class='featuretag'>This detail shot emphasizes the 'unearthed-looking' effect of the painstaking paint process. The artist; who was born in 1966 in Beijing, joined the People's Liberation Army in 1982 where he was trained to paint. He has since become the world's leading Chinese contemporary artist. <i>China China</i> is his best known sculpture series, achieving iconic status. The two faceless figures are clad in Mao suits, and take on a kowtowing stance. They are of slightly different proportions, and have slight variations in their tilt, the one in the rear looking forward and the one in front looking to the sky. They are based on ancient terracotta burial figures and represent the generational views of pre and post-modern Chinese society.<\/p>"

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project[12]="<p class='featuretag'>Zhu Wei's signature, the date, edition #, and foundry stamp are stamped onto each figure's left foot.<\/p>"

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project[13]="<p class='featuretag'>The finished sets were crated and shipped to  such locations as Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and New Zealand.<\/p>"