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Lot Essay
The Pierre et Gilles's re-interpretation of the Buddhist divinity is far from being a faithful copy of the traditional ones, since it mixes diverse elements taken from such images as those found in China, India, Japan, Tibet, and other West-Asian regions. In the Pierre et Gilles's Buddharupa (the name given to any graphic representation of the Buddha), his physical attributes correspond to the determination and resolution shown in Japanese images. On the other side, his clothes resemble the tradition of India, where iconographic representations with the naked shoulders and/or torso are more frequent in counterpart to, his Chinese likenesses, for example. In fact, it is widely known that it is socially improper for Chinese monks to expose their upper arms in public. Around the head of Pierre et Gilles's Buddha, and extending below the nape of the neck, there is a sparkling golden disc; a halo _ the equivalent to the aureoles present in the representations of Roman and Christian divinities _ an unquestionable symbol of the divine and sacred in harmony with the artistic tradition of India; in particular Buddhist iconography.