Admire the burnished sculptures of Zhu Bingren, a fourth-generation bronze and copper craftsman from Shandong province. The big-ticket installation on show is 'The Rice Road', a field of waving rice, all in bronze, displayed in a mirrored gallery.
Zhu Bingren Art Museum
Beijing
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