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Image: Zhang Huan, Taiwan Buddha, 2010, ash, wood, aluminium, steel, 530 x 740 x 350 (left), 530 x 360 x 370 (right). Image courtesy of the artist and PACE, New York.
Exhibition
ZHANG HUAN: SYDNEY BUDDHA
8 Jan 2015 – 15 Mar 2015
Event times
10am–6pm Daily
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 245 Wilson St
- Sydney
New South Wales - 2015
- Australia
Travel Information
- Nearest stop is at Codrington Street at City Road, approximately a 5 minute walk to Carriageworks. Buses: 422, 423, 426, 428, 370, 352
- Redfern Station (8 minute walk); Macdonaldtown Station (10 minute walk); Newtown Station (15 minute walk)
About
Created with 20 tonnes of incense ash and standing at over five metres tall, Sydney Buddha is a meditation on the brevity of life and the cycles of renewal and destruction. Sydney Buddha is made of two parts, an aluminium sculpture and an ash casting of its interior. The works are installed facing each other; however, as time passes, one of them is destroyed.
For over two decades internationally renowned artist Zhang Huang has examined contemporary Life through an engagement with the traditions and rituals which are central to Buddhist, Chinese and Tibetan histories.
