Monumental Sculptures

Posted by: maimm on: March 9, 2009

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I’ve just read this morning about a project called the The Tees Valley Giants which is considered as one of the ‘world’s biggest art project’. The construction of the first sculpture has just started. It is the work of Turner prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor and one of the world’s leading structural engineers, Cecil Balmond. So I decided towrite a post about monumental sculptures I like.

Below is an article from design week website and here’s an article from The Guardian concerning this world’s biggest public art project.:

Construction is set to begin on the first of five giant outdoor sculptures by sculptor Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond, planned for the Tees Valley.

The artist and structural engineer together designed the £2.7m artwork, which will be installed at Middlehaven Dock in Middlesbrough. The sculpture, titled Temenos, will be 110m long and nearly 50m high. Its name comes from a Greek word meaning a piece of land dedicated to a god.

Sculptures will also be installed at Stockton, Hartlepool, Darlington and Redcar and Cleveland over the next ten to 15 years. Temenos is scheduled for completion this summer. Tees Valley Regeneration claims that the five sculptures – which together will cost a total of £15m – will constitute the biggest public art project in the world.

Earlier this year, plans were unveiled for the Angel of the South, a £2m 50m-tall sculpture of a racehorse by artist Mark Wallinger, which could be installed in a field near Ebbsfleet in Kent by 2012.

See also Angel of the North, another monumental sculpture created by the very talented artist Anthony Gormley.

Anthony Gormley's statue, sculpture Angel of the North

See also the Cass Sculpture Fondation: a park with monumental sculptures from very well-known and talented artists.

In 2007, I discovered a Belgian artist, Arne Quinze, who did an installation called “Cityscape” in Brussels, my hometown. He’s done various other large scale structures and installations in various countries including the on for the Burning Man Festival in the US, Nevada, which made him famous.

Here are a few images of Cityscape