Gonka Gystso's "Dissecting Buddha" at Metropolitan Museum of Art

THE ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB

"Dissected Buddha" (2013) by Gonka Gystso. 110 1/5" × 90 1/2" in

NEW YORK---"Dissected Buddha" is a massive work of collage, stickers, pencil and colored pencil and acrylic on paper, and is featured as part of a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Created by Gonka Gystso, a Tibetan born in 1961 his much smaller "Love Ain't Cheap" portrait of Buddha sold at auction for close to $40,000 in October 2013.  [Auction results]