BEIJING.- For his first solo exhibition in China, the German-born sculptor Christian Lemmerz has created a large installation entitled Hypnosis, which seeks to confront us directly with our own life – and not least our own death. Christian Lemmerz always engages with the major conditions of our existence in his art – life, death, love, religion, freedom, oppression – and his works are usually executed such that they try to stimulate a reaction from or a relationship with the viewer. Art should function as a provocative confrontation, thinks Christian Lemmerz. His work starts with the premise that sculpture, like the body, is a phenomenological entity to which we relate with our various senses as visual, tactile and cognitive experi¬ence. And it is precisely this sensory and bodily experience of sculpture that is exploited in the exhibition at FAURSCHOU BEIJING. In a grid from the ceiling hang hundreds of skulls in front of which