Provocative public pieces

1. The "Big Back Head" Maitreya

As soon as it appeared in April in an amusement park in Luoyang, Henan province, the golden statue received a great deal of sarcastic reviews mocking its cross-over "fashion". It featured a modern man's head with a "big back head" hairstyle and the body of a sitting Maitreya Buddha.

The park later apologized on its website for the negative impact of the figure. It explained that the figure's head resembled the park's founder.