Sydney gallery showcases sculptures that cross cultural boundaries
Shanghai-born artist and curator Xu Zhen created a mind-blowing installation back in 2013 when he ‘fused’ reversed bodies of Buddhist deities with classical Greek sculptures.
His ‘Eternity’ exhibition, has returned, via his art enterprise MadeIn Company, to take over Sydney.
The large-scale site-specific sculptural installation aims to challenge and reinterpret the ‘East meets West’ cliché by focusing on the infinite possibilities of contemporary art creation.
Xu’s ability to criticise the shibboleths of the global art world becomes apparent with a single look at the bodhisattvas and other Chinese religious figures stacked and attached by their necks to statues of the Parthenon.
source: Neos Kosmos
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