Amazing and Funny

Just before it opened the mall, which is located in China's southern Pearl River Delta, it was heralded by the New York Times as part of 'China's astonishing new consumer culture'.

The mall's developer, Hu Guirong, sent a team travelling around the world for two years in search of ideas.

It features seven zones modelled on different parts of the world, including a replica of the bell tower of St Mark's Square in Venice, as well and area dedicated to downtown San Francisco.









David Hand, a retail analyst at Jones LaSalle in Beijing, said: 'They set out to the be the biggest, and hoped that being the biggest would be the attracting factor.

'It hasn't delivered.

'The Chinese love shopping, they love brands, and they love international products, even though the average income is low.

'New shoppers are born everyday. We won't run out of them.'







China has been hit hard by the global recession, and the city of Dongguan is known for its popularity with low-paid factory workers.

The only occupied areas of the mall are near the entrance, where several Western fast food chains sell burgers next to an abandoned go-kart track.

Dick Groves, a retail consultant based in Hong Kong, said the failure of the New South China Mall was down to inexperience in leasing business and an undisciplined financial system.

'When it's easy to get financing without having to convince someone of the project's feasability, and without having to show pre-leasing commitment, you can start to get into trouble,' he told The National.





Around 500 new malls have been built in China over the last five years.

All of them are said to be waiting for the arrival of the middle class, with China the largest growing economy in the world before the recent global

When you are standing near this sculptures it looks like a pile of trash.
But if you find the right angle and distance, then you can see the most amazing type of art - trash art.Bernard Pras makes his statues, using all kind of garbage he finds.

Bernard Pras is the son of Jacques Pras, Cyclist JarnacIn years 40 and 50. Raised partly by her grandmother who ran a grocery store and introduce the art, he studied mechanical short, he quickly abandoned to register for Fine Arts Poitiers then Toulouse. Graduated in 1974 from Fine Arts ToulouseBernard Pras became assistant teacher in various schools before resigning in Education. His artistic activity while moving toward the burning home Claude Manesse.

At the end of 1980After several years of doubt and research on the form, he began to find his own artistic voice in developing the principle ofAquagravureThen in 1994, performing installations and assemblages of heterogeneous objects to the manner ofArcimboldo, Whose overall composition is really not fit for the audience that through photography which recreates the image plane due by the artist. The first major exhibition held in 1998. This principle ofanamorphosis has been the theme of the artist, who tries to larger facilities and processed form ofInventories Various reinterpreting various known images of the history of art (Crucifixion, van Gogh, Francis Bacon...), And contemporary society (portraits ofAlbert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, Mickey...).

In 2001, he directed the generic 26e Night Caesar on the request of the director Arnaud Vincent.

He lives and works near Paris, Montreuil.