Pilgrimage, 2001 - Denver, CO - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

NOTE: the piece has been moved to the Hamilton Plaza by the Hamilton Art Museum in 2011. Coordinates have been changed to reflect this move. Most of the links below no longer as the artist was censored by the Chinese Government.

Pilgrimage, depicting a performance in New York where the nude artist is lying on a block of ice on a traditional Chinese daybed was a gift to the Denver Museum of Art from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan. Installation at the Riverfront Park Plaza was paid for by the Riverfront Park Community Foundation. (It is ironic I took this picture on a day where the temperature was 14° and there was ice in the sculpture!)

The plaque reads as follows:

This sculpture depicts a 1988 performance event at the
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, New York,
where Zhang Huan (pronounced Jahng Hooann) lay naked,
face-down on a block of ice for almost 10 minutes.
The work, Zhang says, is about his experience coming
to America and his fear of New York City. "I want to feel
the city with my body, just as I feel the ice." Zhang
says that he undergoes feats of extreme endurance
because he wants "to experience the relationship
between the physical body and the spiritual body."

The piece is made of Tian Qing Stone, measures 26 x 136 x 60 inches and weighs 8.5 tons. The plaza is designed to draw the eye towards the sculpture when one descends (going west) the Riverfront Park Pedestrian Bridge.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Pilgrimage, 2001 Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Zhang Huan Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 2001 Materials used: Tian Qing Stone Location: Hamilton Plaza

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