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More Sculpture in the City (London that is). Don't think this one looks very healthy - maybe he just needs a good meal!
It's called The Orientalist by Huma Bhabha (2007). A website describes it thus: (I leave you do decide if it's artbollocks!)

Humanised through exaggerated hands and feet and sympathetic cartoon styling, its powers waver between the comically surreal and powerful. The ambiguity of the figure impresses on the viewer the complexity of human nature - being both powerful and frail - and in this way is characteristic of Bhabha's work. Formed from clay, chicken wire, Styrofoam and found objects that Bhabha skilfully manipulated into a fantastical figure before it was then cast in bronze, 'The Orientalist' is imbued with the touch of the artist.

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