East meets west as a giant sculpture by Chinese contemporary artist Xu Zhen is installed in the NGV forecourt in Melbourne. Eighteen metres long and weighing 15 tonnes, Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana...2016-17 depicts the traditional reclining Buddha draped with replicas of Greco-Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical statues. The sculpture, symbolising ‘harmony if the world came together’, is a special commission for the NGV Triennial, a free summer exhibition on from 15 December-15 April





