HONG KONG—The sculptor of a statue commemorating the victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square clampdown said on Friday that its removal from a Hong Kong university was “brutal” but any damage would be symbolic of recent changes in the city under Chinese rule. The eight-meter (26-foot) sculpture of anguished human torsos was one of the few remaining public memorials in the former British colony to remember the clampdown on pro-democracy protesters—a taboo topic in mainland China, where it cannot be publicly commemorated. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) on Wednesday dismantled and removed the two-tonne copper artwork, known as “Pillar of Shame,” from the campus where it has been for more than two decades, citing legal and other concerns. “Of course I could repair everything, but maybe it would be nice to have some damage on it,” Danish sculptor Jens Galschiot told Reuters in an interview. “It sounds strange, but …