Video: "Sweetness" - a city made of sugar
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We have already talked about various interesting models of fantasy cities, created from the most unusual objects - kitchen utensils, plastic bottles, old machine parts, as well as edible cities made of cookies and chocolate.
"Sweetness" - this is the name of the architectural model of the fantastic city from Meschac Gaba. Benin-based artist Meschac Gaba came up with a fabulously sweet city and then built it, just out of sugar.
In a fictional city measuring 30x20 feet, no less than 600 buildings, including such world-famous landmarks as the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney Opera House, the Reichstag, the Empire State Building, the London Eye (one of the largest Ferris wheels in world), Arc de Triomphe, Petronas Twin Towers and others.
Benintian Meschac Gaba currently lives and works in the Netherlands. His Sweetness model was not created simply because the author wanted to indulge in sugar. The artist pursued a specific goal. Sugar City was designed to draw attention to the use of slave labor on sugarcane plantations in his native Benin.
Sugar City has been featured in exhibitions in many cities. I wonder if no one wanted to taste this city?
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