There are cities that host famous monuments very unique: sculptural works or commemorative sculptures between the most original in the world, enough to leave those who see them speechless. Surely fascinating, they are artwork suggestive, evocative and in some cases even moving, whose meaning or history of the artist who gave them life should be known. So let’s find out what the monuments which is worth admiring live.
Transition by Jerzy Kalina
ll “Monument to anonymous pedestrians”In Wroclaw in Poland is made up of seven bronze statues that disappear underground on one side of the road, only to reappear on the other side. Fourteen life-size figures representing people who disappeared during the introduction of martial law in Poland in 1981, and which was inaugurated on 13 December 2005 for the 24th anniversary of the Siege State in Poland during communism.
Duke of Wellington by Carlo Marocchetti
A monument serious turned into a joke by its citizens is the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of the GoMA, the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. On the head of the Duke of Wellington is now fixed a pin of orange plastic used for traffic. The reason? The citizens of Glasgow enjoyed it so much the first time it was placed at the hands of someone in the mood for jokes, that a petition was even made for the pin not to be removed.
Freedom by Zenos Frudakis
A monument which represents the struggle for the conquest of freedom: “Freedom” is aoriginal bronze sculpture of the Greek / American artist born of a personal situation. The figures represented are four, each of which represents a stage of life, from imprisonment to the conquest of freedom.
Headington Shark by John Buckley
There are houses with a bizarre design, but also objects that make the most classic constructions strange. The “Headington shark“, Initially called” Untitled 1996 “and also known as the” Oxford Shark “and” Headington Shark “is a fiberglass sculpture wedged on the roof of Bill Heine’s house in Oxford. Just over 7 meters high, it is a monument against nuclear energy, and was produced in August 1986 on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Nelson Mandela by Marco Cianfanelli
Marco Cianfanelli has created a monument in honor of Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the imprisonment of the South African political leader. 50 steel columns 9 meters high and fixed to the ground, positioned in Howick, in the exact place where Mandela was arrested, shaped to represent his face.
Atomium by André Waterkeyn and André and Jean Polak
We remember our “Tree of Life” and the pavilions of Expo 2015, “Atomium“Is instead a original monument built on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1958 which was to remain erected only 6 months, but its success was such that it has become one of the symbols of Brussels. The 102-meter-high structure represents the 9 atoms of an iron crystal, and today it is possible to access 4 of the 9 spheres.
Non Violence by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd
“No violence” it’s a bronze statue by Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, which the artist created following the death of musician John Lennon in 1980. A knotted gun that represents an act of non-violence in a country with a high mortality rate generated by the possession of firearms. Also called “Knotted Gun”, it is visible in New York in front of the former stock exchange.
Black Ghost by Svajunas Jurkus and Sergejus Plotnikovas
“Black Ghost” it’s a bronze statue 2.4 meters high created in 2010 by Svajunas Jurkus and Sergejus Plotnikovas and located in the city of Klaipeda in Lithuania. A sculpture that depicts a faceless ghost with a lantern in his hand that comes out of the water to get on the pier that represents the legend of the city that tells of a ghost that appeared to a guard of the town’s castle.
Expansion by Paige Bradley
The original of the sculpture “Expansion”By Paige Bradley is in New York, and represents rebirth through inner strength after despair. A’sculptural work born to represent the state of mind of the artist during his stay in the Big Apple, it represents the destroyed body of a naked woman meditating in the Lotus position, and is the result of the breaking of the sculpture with the clear intention of breaking it.
LOVE by Maurizio Cattelan
One of the most popular Italian artists, Maurizio Cattelan he has created many original works, including “The Ninth Hour”, a sculpture representing Pope John Paul II hit by a meteorite and surrounded by pieces of glass, but also “LOVE“, Also called“ Middle Finger ”, a original monument which represents a hand intent on making the fascist salute with severed fingers and which can be admired in Piazza Affari in Milan. The only finger that can be saved is the middle finger, and there are many interpretations: a symbol of the economic crisis, an affront to fascism, a gesture of irreverence towards finance, or life.