On 28 September, a 13ft tall and 10ft wide sculpture depicting the head of a young Chinese girl was installed in the Meadows Museum Plaza. The sculpture, called “Sho,” is made of white-painted stainless steel openwork mesh. The 660lbs figure was hand-carried to the plaza in two sections from a truck parked behind the museum. Six art handlers spent three days assembling the two pieces with hundreds of rods and screws to create a seamless and invisible connection upon completion. Internationally renowned Spain-based artist Jaume Plensa created the sculpture in 2007. Mr Plensa has established himself as a monumental sculptor incorporating film, light, letters and other unusual materials to present familiar objects in an interpretation of familiar objects, such as the human body, in unfamiliar ways.
