ZHANG HUAN IN CONVERSATION

Zhang Huan in conversation
Thursday 8 January 2015, 4pm at Carriageworks.
Renowned Chinese artist Zhang Huan speaks about his work Sydney Buddha at Carriageworks.
Zhang Huan: Sydney Buddha is comprised of two large-scale sculptures of Buddha, each over five-metres tall, and positioned facing each other in the Carriageworks public space. One Buddha is created from aluminium and acts as a mould to form the second Buddha, which is created from 20 tonnes of ash collected from Buddhist temples in Shanghai, Jiangsu Province and the Zhejiang Province of China. The ephemeral ash Buddha will gradually disintegrate over the course of the exhibition, affected by exposure to the environment.
Chinese-born Zhang Huan (b. 1965) is one of the most vital, influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. He began his career in Beijing in the 1990s creating performative, politically engaged works, and moved to New York in 1998. Over two decades, his body of work has addressed themes including poverty, personal liberty, cultural difference and nomadism. Since his return to Shanghai in 2006, Zhang Huan has shifted focus to more traditional forms of art such as sculpture and painting and adopted ash as his primary medium.
Carriageworks in association with Sydney Festival presents
Zhang Huan: Sydney Buddha
8 Jan- 15 Mar 2015
10am - 6pm daily, free
More Info:bit.ly/1AxsMMS

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They need to hire me as the translator.

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Zhang huan even caught the fact she did not translate what he said. -_-;