The Lost Buddhas: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from Qingzhou
29 August - 23 November 2008
Asian Gallery, Ground Level
For more information of the current display, please visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales direct link http://www.asianart.com.au/exhibitions/current/lost_buddhas
Additional information such as brochures (which includes information about bodhisattvas) and displays about the exhibition are also available as well links to past exhibitions.
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2 comments:
I've just looked at the exhibition. very distinctive imagery, and so different from Indian representations
The brochure has an iconography that allows you to read the images as an instruction manual for correct living. Every element is there for a purpose to tell a pre/literate viewer not only what a buddha is physically like but how that relates to his/her behaviour in the world and, therefore, how that behaviour may be emulated. The manual can be repeated exactly image to image with stylistic elements that vary to reflect time and place and give a local connection for viewers.
The energy human beings (from many cultures) put into such works - number, scale, detail, purposeful arrangement and housing - is quite astonishing. Attention = meaning = importance (Jungian, s'pose?). Which, therefore, make them such a target of political de/recon-struction (physical or otherwise) or private gain.
Hope that comment made you a happy Ivan!
Sarahb
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