Blood-red wax bricks, part of UK artist Anish Kapoor’s installation Symphony for a Beloved Sun, stun viewers at CAFA Art Museum in Beijing. [Photo by Yang Xiaoyu/chinadaily.com.cn]

Recalling his first encounter with the piece at Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau exhibition hall back in 2013, the young visual artist said Kapoor's creation "only triggered thoughts of warfare and the death it entails".

"Kapoor is like a medium," said Lin Yong, a lay Buddhist, seeing Kapoor's art from another perspective. "He just presents what he saw in the unknown to us through his work."

"I know he is also a staunch Buddhist, and his artwork, albeit odd and stunning, can activate viewers' imagination, which is often dormant for most of the time," Lin added.

In the presence of his enigmatic work, Chinese viewers young and old are spellbound and give free rein to their imagination.

Such is the magic of Kapoor's work, or perhaps such is what the visual superstar wants to achieve through it.