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This 28 metre-high steel sculpture of the Jaguar E-Type car was designed by Gerry Judah for the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011, which took place in Sussex, UK.
Made from half a kilometre of steel tubing with a diameter of 1.2 metres, the sculpture weighs over 175 tonnes and shows the car balanced on its front bumper.(
"Nomade" by Jaume Plensa (j)
Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's sculptural installation titled Nomade, translated as Nomad, is a literal man of steel. The figurative sculpture displays a gigantic replica of a man sitting with his knees to his chest. The painted stainless steel figure is left incomplete, without a discernible face, feet, or hands, as a sign of welcoming spectators in, literally. The sculpture is open for viewers to experience it firsthand by walking into it and reevaluating their surroundings through the piece that redefines its situated space.
Most intriguing about the 8-meter-high sculpture is perhaps its typographical makeup. Letters circle all around to both create the structure and leave it with a perforated shell, allowing sunlight to seep in and out from all ends. Plensa explains his thoughtful decision for the structure's construction: "I always imagined that our skin is permanently tattooed with text – our life, our experiences – tattooed, but with invisible ink. And then suddenly, somebody is able to decipher these tattoos; that person becoming a lover, a friend. That is probably why I work with sculptures like this, this human form composed solely of letters, like cells. It’s almost biological."
Metalmorphosis - moving, mirrored sculpture by David Cerny in Charlotte, North Carolina (o)
Alfa Romeo Centenary Sculpture at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010, which took place in West Sussex (o)
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