Video: Giant yellow duck in Sydney Harbor. A present for the people of Sydney from the giant artist Florentijn Hofman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Any contemporary artist who has a sense of humor is a Dutchman. Florentijn Hofman … Another proof of this is the appearance the other day in the water area of the city of Sydney yellow duck – giant copy a traditional attribute from our bathrooms.
Florentin Hoffman doesn't like to waste time on trifles! He does not understand sculptures of small size, human height and less. His fiefdom is gigantomania, in which he creates truly huge works of art, such as a large miniature factory, a dead fly for the Mexican Day of the Dead, or the Big Yellow Rabbit in the central square of the Swedish city of Orebro.
And another work by Hoffman was presented to the public on January 5, 2013 in Sydney as part of the Sydney Festival 2013. And I must say that the inhabitants of this Australian city, as well as his guests, were very surprised when a giant yellow duck entered the harbor. 30 thousand people became witnesses of this event at once.
Many people have similar toys in their bathrooms. They are very touching, and therefore always cause a smile when looking at them. Floretin Hoffman wanted to achieve the same effect by releasing a yellow duck twenty meters high into the water area of the Sydney Bay.
Floretin Hoffman asks not to look for any political or social motives in this work. The artist encourages people to look at the giant bathroom of a duck and smile - he did not set any other goals for himself when creating this work of his.
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