Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures

Παράξενα Αγάλματα του Κόσμου
Weird Sculptures of the World


The Melting Cow - 2006

Sculpted By András Hajdu, Balázs Magashegyi and Krisztián Imre
Location: Budapest, Hungary

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures

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Weird Sculptures of the World


The Melting Cow - 2006

Sculpted By András Hajdu, Balázs Magashegyi and Krisztián Imre
Location: Budapest, Hungary

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Δρομέας (Dromeas) - The Runner

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Dromeas - 1988, 1994

Sculptor: Costas Varotsos
Location: Omonia Square – Hilton Hotel, Athens, Greece

Dromeas - The Runner 1988
Costas Varotsos accepts the invitation of music composer and then vice-mayor of Athens Stavros Xarhakos to commission a sculptural intervention for the city of Athens. He creates the Runner for Omonia square, an artwork which upon its presentation became a matter of debate among the art critics and the audience.

Varotsos masters to capture a borderline instant of the Runner's motion and to produce a figure that impresses the momentum of everyday life and which determines its own passage through the circular Omonia square.

Dromeas - The Runner 1994
After the withdrawal of the Runner from Omonia square, due to the construction of an underground station at the area, Varotsos creates a new Runner that is placed in front of the Athens Hilton hotel, at Megalis tou Genous Sholi square. The public space welcomes once more the Runner of Varotsos, an artwork that is integrated by the urban environment and which signals the area.

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Δρομέας (Dromeas) - The Runner

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Weird Sculptures of the World

Dromeas - 1988, 1994

Sculptor: Costas Varotsos
Location: Omonia Square – Hilton Hotel, Athens, Greece

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Δρομέας (Dromeas) - The Runner

Παράξενα Αγάλματα του Κόσμου
Weird Sculptures of the World

Dromeas - 1988, 1994

Sculptor: Costas Varotsos
Location: Omonia Square – Hilton Hotel, Athens, Greece

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Δρομέας (Dromeas) - The Runner

Παράξενα Αγάλματα του Κόσμου
Weird Sculptures of the World

Dromeas - 1988, 1994

Sculptor: Costas Varotsos
Location: Omonia Square – Hilton Hotel, Athens, Greece

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Δρομέας (Dromeas) - The Runner

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Weird Sculptures of the World

Dromeas - 1988, 1994

Sculptor: Costas Varotsos
Location: Omonia Square – Hilton Hotel, Athens, Greece

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Corporate Head

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Corporate Head - 1991

Sculptor: Terry Allen
Location: Citicorp Downtown LA

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Corporate Head

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Corporate Head - 1991

Sculptor: Terry Allen
Location: Citicorp Downtown LA

Corporate Head Sculpture 1991
by Philip Levine (Poet)
They said I had a head for business
They said to get ahead I had to lose my head
They said be concrete and I became concrete
They said, go, my son, multiply, divide, conquer
I did my best

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Corporate Head

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Weird Sculptures of the World

Corporate Head - 1991

Sculptor: Terry Allen
Location: Citicorp Downtown LA

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Corporate Head

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Weird Sculptures of the World

Corporate Head - 1991

Sculptor: Terry Allen
Location: Citicorp Downtown LA

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Public Purse

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The Public Purse - 1994


Sculptor: Simon Perry
Location: Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne Victoria Australia

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Public Purse

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The Public Purse - 1994


Sculptor: Simon Perry
Location: Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne Victoria Australia

The Public Purse’ is one of the city’s most unique and distinctive forms of street seating. Appearing as if it is nothing more than an oversized dropped purse, the sculpture perfectly reflects its bustling retail district surrounds. ‘The Public Purse’ is made of highly polished red granite and stainless steel.

In January 1994, the City of Melbourne called for design submissions for unique and distinctive forms of street seating. Simon Perry's ‘The Public Purse’ was one of the works selected. Perry says of this red-granite sculpture that it 'signifies an interaction between the city and citizens, the public and the private'. Looking like nothing less than an oversized dropped purse, this public seating can be located anywhere in the retail district without ever looking out of place.

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Public Purse

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Weird Sculptures of the World

The Public Purse - 1994


Sculptor: Simon Perry
Location: Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne Victoria Australia

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Παράξενα Αγάλματα - Weird Sculptures - Public Purse

Παράξενα Αγάλματα του Κόσμου
Weird Sculptures of the World

The Public Purse - 1994


Sculptor: Simon Perry
Location: Bourke Street Mall, Melbourne Victoria Australia