Chinese artist Zhang Wei built “Frankensteins” of famous people from countless clippings of the faces of more than 300 anonymous Chinese.
The idea for the series came about when Zhang Wei met in 2008 a Japanese game called Artificial Girl, which lets you create virtual people that do not exist in the real world.
About a year before, he had photographed over 300 Chinese, including relatives, friends and strangers, for a job that sought to discuss the sense of Chinese identity in the 21st century.
The project was not completed, but the portrait database served as the basis for the faces and mouths of Artificial Theater: Wei went on to cut and paste on the computer pieces of those over 300 faces to form the traits of figures like John Lennon , Donald Trump, Marilyn Monroe and Madonna.
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John Lennon
Madonna
Kim Jong Un
Che Guevara
Abraham Lincoln
Bashar al-Assad
John F. Kennedy
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Elvis Presley
Marilyn Monroe
Bruce Lee
Jackie Chan
Audrey Hepburn
Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie
Vladimir Putin
Pierce Brosnan
Saddam Hussein
Omar Mouammer al Gaddafi
George W. Bush
Osama Bin Laden
Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad
Barack Hussein Obama II
Michael Jackson
Adolf Hitler
Che Guevara
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