The famous duo formed by the artists Elmgreen & Dragset created a mermaid man named Han. Located in the port of the Danish town Elsinore, opposite the Kronborg Castle -famous for setting Shakespeare’s Hamlet- the sculpture was conceived as a contemporary masculine paraphrase of the Danish national icon, the Little Mermaid, representing a young boy sitting […]
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APRIL, JASON BRIGGS, 2006
On the border between attraction and repulsion are Jason Briggs’s porcelain sculptures. Clearly allusive to a sexuality to be discovered. The artist invents amphorities fused together and allusive to the various sexual characteristics of the female and male body. Briggs gives life to porcelain sculptures that attract you to touch them but on the other […]
MOLECULE MAN, JONATHAN BOROFSKY, 1997
We are at the end of the #BerlinSeries, and we want to finish it with an artwork whose meaning is our hope for the future to come. In fact, this enormous sculpture (30 metres high) is a symbol of reunification, unity, strength. It represents three men joining in the center, but these men re made […]
MOTHER WITH HER DEAD SON, KÄTHE KOLLWITZ, 1993
This work by the famous german artist Käthe Kollwitz is places inside the Neue Wache (New Guardhouse), a neoclassical building inspired by the Roman Pantheon. The Neue Wache was dedicated to the Unknown Soldier of the World Wars since 1931, more than 100 years after its construction. The hole in the roof is open, it doesn’t […]
MEMORIAL TO THE MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE (OR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL), PETER EISENMAN, 2005
The monument for the Holocaust was inaugurated in 2005, much later than the finish of the World War II, and it was designed by the architect Peter Eisenman. As Wikipedia reports, it consists of a 19,000 m2 site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae”, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m […]
MIXED SCULPTURES, ANDY WARHOL
Today we speak about someone that needs no introduction, Andy Warhol is one of the most famous artist in the world. During the 60s was one of the representative of the Pop Art movement, Pop’s artists loved to transform daily objects in pieces of art. Warhol painted portraits of celebrity like Liz Taylor or Mao […]