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This sculpture is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

In contemporary Chinese artistic circle, Ju Ming's sculpture arts are famous for the style containing deep orient cultural connotation and presenting personality. In his sculpture "Taichi" series, the individual sculpture together with the surrounding environment, has formed a unique humanistic landscape. In "Taichi Series", taking basic skills of shadowboxing as the elements of traditional picture for shaping and further replacing the traditional connotation in it, applying the massive touch sense and concise patch sense of modern sculpture, Ju Ming, as an artist, has expressed his understanding on imago of mutual integrat ion and accommodat ion of Chinese and western cultures.

"Taichi" is an important symbol forming Ju Ming's mature sculpture language and artistic style. When "Taichi" appeared by his cutting skills, it immediately aroused the concern from international artistic circle. The creation theme "Taichi" is originated from his life experience, as well as an experience of life movement and a capture of life imago also. Ju Ming accepted Yuyu Yang's suggestion and begun to learn shadowboxing. Exercise of shadowboxing and comprehension about shadowboxing spirit has evolved into a new topic of his sculptural art, as well as his personality. The works have presented an immense bearing of manand- nature combination and promoted the outstanding existence of "Taichi" image. From learning Taichi to carving Taichi, along with increasing improvement of skills of Taichi, his understanding about Taichi spirit has been continuously deepened, images he carved coming out one after another so that his creation turning to be more and more confident and perfect, attaining such a realm where he "carves at will", oblivious of himself.