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Posted: July 5, 2019
Journalism Photography
Legs Wide Open!
by seshadri_sreenivasan
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Like the Tibetan Buddhist tradition that it evokes, Zhang Huan's 'Three-Legged Buddha' is an artwork of mystery and complexity. It captures life, death, and rebirth. The enormous sculpture is strong and muscular, yet fragile; seemingly dominated yet defiant. Is the key figure within it collapsing, or is it arising?
These are the qualities and questions the sculpture embodies as it sits within the lush South Fields of Storm King Art Center. In July, the Mountainville, N.Y. art center, which brings together nature and sculpture in a magnificent pastoral setting of hills, fields, and woodlands in the Hudson Highlands, installed the sculpture. Standing about 28 feet tall and weighing 12 tons, it is in a clearing amid a grove of maple trees. The sculpture is the gift of the Chinese artist and The Pace Gallery of New York.
This is not a piece that one casually glances at. The sculpture has three gigantic, thick legs, two of them spread out balanced on thin stilts, in a contorted, back-bending image of the Buddha. The third leg and foot are resting atop the upper half of an eight-foot-high head, which has eyes closed. The top edge of the sculpture is rough like mountain peaks.(ack:wiki)
I had the good fortune of visiting the Storm King Centre in the summer of 2014. Stading by the side of this wonderful sculpture is a awesome experience.
Camera: Canon SX130IS, standard setting. Image slightly adjusted for light and slightly cropped and resized to FAR requirements
Enjoy!
by seshadri_sreenivasan Interested in this? Contact The Artist
These are the qualities and questions the sculpture embodies as it sits within the lush South Fields of Storm King Art Center. In July, the Mountainville, N.Y. art center, which brings together nature and sculpture in a magnificent pastoral setting of hills, fields, and woodlands in the Hudson Highlands, installed the sculpture. Standing about 28 feet tall and weighing 12 tons, it is in a clearing amid a grove of maple trees. The sculpture is the gift of the Chinese artist and The Pace Gallery of New York.
This is not a piece that one casually glances at. The sculpture has three gigantic, thick legs, two of them spread out balanced on thin stilts, in a contorted, back-bending image of the Buddha. The third leg and foot are resting atop the upper half of an eight-foot-high head, which has eyes closed. The top edge of the sculpture is rough like mountain peaks.(ack:wiki)
I had the good fortune of visiting the Storm King Centre in the summer of 2014. Stading by the side of this wonderful sculpture is a awesome experience.
Camera: Canon SX130IS, standard setting. Image slightly adjusted for light and slightly cropped and resized to FAR requirements
Enjoy!
Mixed Media: None | Photography of Art Installations
Legs Wide Open!
by seshadri_sreenivasan
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© Copyright 2024. seshadri_sreenivasan All rights reserved.
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