European Thousand-Arms Classical Sculpture
2014
Glass fiber reinforced concrete, marble grains, marble, metal
304 x 1470 x 473 cm
European Thousand-Hand Classical Sculpture combines 19 distinctive Western classical sculptures of numerous forms; deriving from the shape of the Thousand-Hand Guanyin (Bodhisattva) in Buddhist iconography. Thus Xu Zhen’s work deals with the sense of form and spirituality.
European Thousand-Arms Classical Sculpture
Eternity – Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss, Othryades the Spartan
Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana, the Dying Gaul, Farnese Hercules, Night, Day, Sartyr and Bacchante, Funerary Geniuses From the Tomb of Christophe de Thou, Wounded Achilles, The Persian Soldier, Dancing Faun, Crouching Aphrodite, Narcissus Couche, Othryades the Spartan Dying, the Fall of Icarus, A River, Milo of Croton
