The importance of the experience as a sculptor in understanding the stability of the biological forms.

The bones are admirable examples of engineering. Because are structures whose stability was tested by natural selection. The efficiency of a skull is the result of a series of tests, generation after generation. Always looking for maximum efficiency with minimum spent on its production. Exactly what qualifies a good engineer of the Civil Construction.
A sculptor experience the most varied possibilities of producing objects.
Feel the result of the most daring attempts of stretching of forms, as well as combinations of the most delicate and robust forms. Works gradations, the stresses applied and its limits.

These figurative human and equine sculptures are by a trio of Beijing-based artists who go by the name Unmask Group. Liu Zhan, Kuang Jun and Tan Tianwei met while at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and have been producing sculptural work together since 2001. These seemingly incomplete stainless steel works show figures in a state of dissolution or perhaps just the opposite, emergence. Regardless, the delicate lines and smooth curves left by the absence of materials make them appear almost sensual.