These peculiar sculptures are not unexpected, however, as they are all part of the first major UK exhibition of outdoor work by Chinese artists. The show, A Beautiful Disorder, has newly commissioned works by 18 Chinese artists who spent time at the foundation, responding to the Sussex countryside. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Linda Nylind for the GuardianThe Mao is not the Mao we immediately imagine either. Song Ta installed the giant 3,000kg fibreglass head of Mao, transported from the artist’s home city of Guangzhou via Portsmouth and the M3. They are concrete plug sockets, incongruously placed on woodland trees: definitely artworks and not somewhere for visitors to recharge their phones, curators stressed.

Source: The Guardian July 04, 2016 09:30 UTC