Storm King Installs Newly Acquired Monumental Sculpture by Zhang Huan

MOUNTAINVILLE< NY.- Storm King Art Center has completed installation of Three Legged Buddha (2007), a colossal sculpture by the internationally celebrated Chinese artist Zhang Huan. The work, which stands nearly twenty-eight feet high and weighs more than twelve tons, is a generous gift from Zhang Huan and The Pace Gallery. The gift was announced by Storm King in spring 2010, at a gala marking the launch of Storm King’s fiftieth-anniversary season. Three Legged Buddha has been installed in Storm King’s South Fields, in a grove of 64 sugar-maple trees that have been articulated into three distinct areas. There, near the eastern border of the sculpture park, it may be viewed in relation to neighboring works, including Magdalena Abakanowicz’ Sarcophagi in Glass Houses (1989). Storm King Art Center President John P. Stern states, “Storm King is delighted to

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