Art on trial - a sculptor's arrest highlights new extremes for censorship in China

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Gavin Butler

BBC/Supplied: Gao Qiang Two men in black caps stand next to a bronze figure of Jesus Christ, who is being held at rifle-point by six identical bronze figures in a semi-circular formation. A seventh bronze figure stand behind them, also holding a rifle, and resembling Mao Zedong — The Gao brothers (pictured) rose to prominence in China's art scene during the 1990s and 2000s, earning a global reputation for works that skewered the politics of their homeland

Jesus Christ stands at gunpoint, palms upturned, seven figures in a firing squad around him. The bronze riflemen are unmistakable in their likeness. They are Mao Zedong, the long-deceased dictator who founded the People's Republic of China, and presided over some of the most traumatic chapters in China's recent history.

For decades, Chinese brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang have made a name for themselves with sculptures like this: irreverent contemporary artworks that skewer the authoritarian past, and present, of their native homeland.

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