Last Supper and other ghost sculptures by Albert Szukalski

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Belgian sculptor of Polish origin Albert Szukalski died back in 2000, but managed to leave behind a creative legacy, thanks to which his name is remembered to this day by those who managed to visit the American ghost town Rhyolite … Established during the Gold Rush and deserted in 1920, this city has less than 15 years of living history. But by the forces of modern sculptors, it has turned into a landmark called Goldwell Open Air Museum, a real open-air museum. The author of the most famous work is Albert Shukalsky. A picturesque group of plaster ghosts against the backdrop of Death Valley (and the city and the museum are located not far from this famous American park) is the same sculpture by the Belgian author, which is called Last supper … Albert Shukalsky created it based on the famous fresco by Leonardo da Vinci "The Secret of the Evening", for which he spent more than two years. For greater realism, he used living people as models, which he covered with a cloth soaked in a quick-drying gypsum-based solution.

This sculptural group looks especially picturesque in the dark, when the disembodied figures of ghosts are illuminated from the inside with multi-colored illumination. Many tourists specially come to the open-air museum Goldwell Open Air Museum in the late afternoon to enjoy just such a mysterious and mysterious view of the "Last Supper" by Albert Shukalsky.

The Goldwell Open Air Museum has other ghostly sculptures created by Shukalsky. So, the statue of the "Ghost Rider" with a bicycle, located not far from the sculptural group Last Supper, looks no less picturesque. Another work, executed in the same style and in the same manner, is in Antwerp, the sculptor's homeland. It is called "Dialogue", and you can see it among the exhibits in Middelheim, the famous Belgian open-air museum.