The Eternal Buddha - Abstract metal sculpture

Ananta Buddha
A global project to install an avant-garde metal sculpture of Lord Buddha at various locations of the world creating an unique space for meditation and spiritual contemplation.
 
Gautama Buddha
Human suffering prompted Prince Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 BCE) to renounce his royal life in search of truth and liberation as a wandering ascetic. He attained enlightenment after meditating extensively and went on to be known as Gautama Buddha. A religious teacher and founder of Buddhism, he preached a livelihood of man beyond the realm of worldly desires and spread messages of universal love, compassion, kindness, harmony and peace.

Over the centuries, the image of the Buddha inspired artists to produce innumerable sculptures and paintings depicting the life of Lord Buddha. Sculptures of the Buddha can be found at various parts of the world today in stone, metal, wood, clay, fiber and so on. Buddhist art developed through various periods in history since the Gandhara period.
 
The idea of Ananta Buddha—the Eternal Buddha
Two Indian artists, Joy Dutta and Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay developed an avant-garde metal sculpture of the Gautama Buddha celebrating impermanence, nothingness, incompleteness, simplicity and imperfection and named it Ananta Buddha meaning the Eternal Buddha. The sculpture depicts emptiness as the focal point of the work, i.e. the face of the Buddha, offering a view of the infinite universe through it.

The artists desire to install the Ananta Buddha at various appropriate locations of the world, creating a unique open-air space for meditation, promoting harmony and peace. This sculpture of Lord Buddha signifies simplicity and oneness with nature and the universe. The ever-changing view of the face of the Ananta Buddha also signifies evanescence and ephemerality, while the rust accumulation on the surface of the sculpture indicates patina of time.

Discounts available if you consider combining with other sculptures. I can also consider discounts for other reasons, just message me.

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