Modern sculptors adorn the city is very strange creatures whose meaning completely incomprehensible townsfolk, and artistic merit raise many questions. Today, we have selected the ten most ugly monuments of the world.
Monument to Abbot Faria
Goa, India
Abbe Faria remember sitting in prison with the future Count of Monte Cristo? This man – not the imagination of Alexandre Dumas. He was a descendant of Indian priests, and in fact first introduced to Europe from the hypnosis. Jose Custodio de Faria was born in Goa, with 15 years living in Europe, took part in the French Revolution, advocated the liberation of Goa. Being 17 years in prison in the Chateau d’If, he practiced yoga. When released from prison (and not dead, as in the novel!), Engaged in healing and hypnosis. At home honored the memory of compatriot and in 1945 he found it awkward monument, which depicts Faria at the time of the hypnotic effect on the patient. Metronome New York, U.S. It turns out that this strange design should evoke images of a metronome: seven digits to the left shows the real time and seven digits to the right report, so many hours left to live before the end of the day. From the hole in the center of flowing stream of steam, noon and midnight, marked his powerful release. Under the gold leaf fragment of rock on which was erected Manhattan – this boulder is a symbol of geological time. The authors of this “art”, created in 1999, tried to say that the time may be considered differently, that it is, in general, with respect, and remind him of transience.
London, UK
Londoners are still wondering why the owner of Fulham Football Club, Mohamed Al-Fayed (father of a friend of Princess Diana – Dodi) has ordered such a terrible statue of his friend Michael Jackson and even placed it near the stadium (despite the fact that the singer had never football is not fond of). Sculptor captures a celebrity, dressed in black pants and a silver jacket, one hand in a glove Jackson and the other he holds a microphone. At the opening of this masterpiece Al-Fayed said that all those who do not like it, can “go to hell.”
, Moscow, Russia
When not called him this gigantic figure appeared on the waterfront of Peter Muscovites, no matter how much discussed rumors that actually created the Columbus Zurab Tsereteli, but could not find anyone to sell it and make up it under the Russian emperor, and may say that it is an urgent need to dismantle, but in the end no one dared to rid our city of the terrible creatures of the Georgian sculptor. It turned out that the cost of removal is incredibly high, and cheaper to live with this eyesore.
Seoul, South Korea
This strange metal structure, vaguely reminiscent of a rose, rolled from the warped the airframe, located in Seoul at the headquarters of a major steel company. Its creator – a famous sculptor and designer, Frank Stella, named it in honor of his friend’s daughter, who died in a plane crash. The townspeople wanted to move the creepy creature in a museum, but realized that it would cost quite expensive, and then tried to hide it with a small group of trees.
Prague, Czech Republic
Subject Brussels Manneken Pis is haunted by modern sculptors. So, David Cerny has created an unusual fountain for Prague: two men, more than a couple feet tall, selflessly urinate in the pool, resembling the Czech Republic. But unlike the Belgian baby modern art high-tech: you can send an SMS to a special number, and the two representatives of the stronger sex naked … “write” anything you want.
in Oslo, Norway
in the west Norwegian capital is a huge park filled with sculptures of a single sculptor – Gustav Vigeland. Connoisseurs of fine attributed to this pile of human flesh a deep symbolic meaning, according to his tale of fatalism – the main theme of art in the first half of XX century. And the ordinary man in the street sees a giant composition of ugly naked bodies entwined, angry-age infants, women with pigtails-predatory snakes – they are quite capable of spoiling your appetite during the picnic, of course, if you decide to arrange it in this park.
Duisburg
Colorful tasteless creations of French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle, known around the world. You could already see them in parks or museums around the world. And in Germany Duisburg erotic sculpture complete woman in a bathing suit, merged in the ecstasy of an unidentified creature, like a huge bird with thick legs and claws red daunting, even became a symbol of the city. Apparently, the Germans saw in it something of their own, of course only to them.
in Paris, France
in general, in the middle of the skyscrapers of the modern district of La Defense in Paris this 12-foot finger the place: it is much worse if he had grown out of the ground somewhere in the middle of the Place Vendome and the Tuileries park. But the fathers of the French capital have decided not to put such experiments, and removed it from my eyes away – in the Paris ring road – Pereferik. By the way, the sculptor Cesar Baldachini blessed copies of his own thumb, not only France but the United States and South Korea.
Nuremberg, Germany
The Germans are a strange way honor the memory of the great graphics: the house-museum in Nuremberg Albrecht Durer, a monument, a caricature. Do you remember the famous dyurerovsky figure, which captures the master touching tan animal? The sculpture is a giant carcass of a rabbit, crushed the man begin to eat small rabbits.
