Video: "Little Manhattan" weighing 2.5 tons. Little Manhattan Sculpture in Pure Marble
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The miniature version of Manhattan, which is called "the heart of New York", weighs as much as 2.5 tons and looks like a giant block of marble. Pure marble sculpture Little manhattan carved japanese sculptor Yutaka Soneinspired by the delightful panoramas of the city. The project took two years to complete. However, Yutaku Sone cannot be called a "pure" sculptor. He studied architecture at the Geijutsu University of Tokyo, painting, photography, creating advertising and creative videos, but it was sculpture that brought him more fame. It was his marble statues that were presented at numerous exhibitions both in Japan and in the USA, as well as in European countries.
To create a topographic map of Manhattan from a marble slab, the sculptor had to study hundreds of bird's-eye views of the city, as well as fly around New York by helicopter more than once, and spend many hours looking at Google Maps. Having studied the location of buildings, streets, bridges and other topographic subtleties of the "heart of New York", Yutaka Sone accurately transferred them to a block of marble, creating the world's heaviest map of the city.
The heaviest miniature version of Manhattan will be on display at New York's David Zwirner Gallery until the end of November 2011.
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