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Chen Weiming (Chinese: 陳維明, born c. 1970) is a Chinese-born New Zealand artist and sculptor. Chen was commissioned by the New Zealand government to create a 3-meter bronze statue of Edmund Hillary in 1991. In 2008, he created a 6.4 meters high replica of the Goddess of Democracy that stood in the Chinese University of Hong Kong until 23 December 2021. In June 2021 and June 2022, Chen unveiled a pair of 30-foot-high sculptures at Yermo's open-air High Desert art center called Liberty Sculpture Park.Chen created a large-scale relief representation of the Tiananmen massacre in 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre. The Tiananmen massacre relief and the Goddess of Democracy replica were both displayed in Hong Kong during protests in 2010.

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rdfs:label	Chen Weiming (sculptor) (en) 陈维明 (zh)
rdfs:comment	陈维明，华人雕塑家，新西兰公民，有美国的居留权。陈维明其中两件作品，一件是仿制89年天安门广场上被推倒的民主女神像，另外一件是刻画天安门屠杀事件的大型浮雕，这两件作品在美国大城市纽约、华盛顿和洛杉矶都展出过。 (zh) Chen Weiming (Chinese: 陳維明, born c. 1970) is a Chinese-born New Zealand artist and sculptor. Chen was commissioned by the New Zealand government to create a 3-meter bronze statue of Edmund Hillary in 1991. In 2008, he created a 6.4 meters high replica of the Goddess of Democracy that stood in the Chinese University of Hong Kong until 23 December 2021. In June 2021 and June 2022, Chen unveiled a pair of 30-foot-high sculptures at Yermo's open-air High Desert art center called Liberty Sculpture Park.Chen created a large-scale relief representation of the Tiananmen massacre in 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre. The Tiananmen massacre relief and the Goddess of Democracy replica were both displayed in Hong Kong during protests in 2010. (en)
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