Tennis
Terracotta Warrior Sculptures
Tank Loft Contemporary Arts Center Chongqing
Commissioned by the ATP
for the Tennis Master Cup Shanghai - 2007
Laury
Dizengremel,
along with fellow Chinese sculptors Shen Xiaonan and Zhang
Yaxi created the 8 Tennis Terracotta Warriors for the ATP / Tennis
Master Cup Shanghai 2007. Each monumental tennis statue is
approx. 2m20 in height.
This
shot of the
tennis player statues was created by our friend
David McBride who is a keen
photographer and teaches animation at the Sichuan Fine Arts
Institute. We didn't have the time to line the Warriors up in
any
particular order, but they looked great against one of the walls of the
Tank Loft Contemporary Arts Center in Chongqing where our studio is
located. David took this in several timed images and did his magic...
so the wall look curved rather than straight!
From left to right,
tennis warriors: Fernando Gonzalez, Richard
Gasquet, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Andy Roddick,
Nikolay Davydenko and David Ferrer.
Photo credit: David McBride
For more information, please
see the TMC's website at http://www.masters-cup.com/1/home/
Media
pages for sculpture series on this website: Daily
Telegraph - Sunday
Times (England)
Sports
Illustrated - Tennis
Magazine - Shanghai
Morning Post - Chengdu
Business Journal - Chongqing
Morning Post - Shanghai
City Weekend and Talk
Magazine (China)
France
2 / Stade 2 French TV - L'Equipe
Sport (France)
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request they not be downloaded or used without the express permission
of the ATP.
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