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
2016-2017
Mineral-based composite material, mineral pigments, metal
550 x 1800 x 360 cm (520 x 1800 x 360 cm; 195 x 80 x 90 cm; 245 x 135 x 75 cm; 220 x 120 x 65 cm; 220 x 95 x 130 cm; 230 x 90 x 140 cm; 145 x 105 x 140 cm; 210 x 115 x 105 cm; 230 x 110 x 120 cm; 210 x 75 x 85 cm; 150 x 85 x 50 cm; 240 x 100 x 140 cm; 245 x 230 x 110 cm; 190 x 125 x 85 cm; 160 x 70 x 140 cm; 245 x 130 x 90 cm)
Eternity (Buddha in Nirvana) is a composition gathering replicas of selected famous Roman-Greek classical sculptures and a reproduction of a 18 meters long statue of Buddha in Nirvana from the Mogao Caves in China.
Eternity merges both civilization aesthetics into a monumental sculptural installation. This visual hybrid reflects various aspects of Eastern and Western history of art and religions, and more generally globalization. The work intends to immortalize the classics of great cultures and to fuse these various elements into one cultural heritage that transcends time and space.
