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Manhattan esculpida en un bloque de mármol de 2,5 toneladas

As far as maps go, this one definitely holds its weight.

A scaled model of Manhattan hand carved from a slab of marble tips the scales at an astounding two-and-a-half tons.

The miniature creation of America's most famous skyline, carved by Japanese artist Yataka Sone, has art enthusiasts at a New York City gallery awestruck.

Astounding: Yutaka Sone's Little Manhattan marble sculpture, weighs as much as a Rolls-Royce Phantom VI

Precision: Mr Sone used photographic reproductions, imagery from Google Earth, and several helicopter rides to render Manhattan with its skyscrapers, streets, avenues, and the bridges to the east and west to scale

Recently put on display at the David Zwirner gallery in New York, Mr Sone used photographic reproductions, imagery from Google Earth, and several helicopter rides to render Manhattan with its Central Park, skyscrapers, streets, avenues, and the bridges to the east and west to scale.

Little Manhattan, carved between 2007 and 2009, measures 21 3/4 x 104 3/8 x 33 1/2 inches.

And it was the highlight of the exhibit when it opened on September 20, with passers-by noting the painstaking precision with which Mr Sone carved the city's every building and sloping street.

The exhibition marks Mr Sone's fifth solo showing since his first exhibition at the gallery in 1999. The current exhibition also includes other marble works and sculptures of trees made predominantly from rattan. 

Long haul: The scaled model took two years to carve

On display: Yutaka Sone: Island at David Zwirner in New York opened earlier this month and runs until October 29

Attention to detail: A tiny model of Manhattan's Central Park lies amongst miniature marble skyscrapers

Mr Sone was born in 1965 in Shizuoka, Japan.

He studied architecture at the Tokyo Geijutsu University. The artist predominantly works in sculpture, but also uses painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance as means of expression.

His work was shown in a number of group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad,

Yutaka Sone: Island at David Zwirner in New York runs until October 29, 2011

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Miniesculturas de escenas callejeras, de Alan Wolfson

Vía Mira y Calla

El realismo que le impregna Alan Wolfson a sus esculturas de localizaciones urbanas en miniatura es realmente asombroso. Hasta el deterioro y la decadencia de cualquier establecimiento consigue reflejarlo a la perfección.

"PEEPWORLD" (2007)
17 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 26 inches

'Subway Inn' interior view.

The array is comprised of approximately 300 LEDs. The lights in the circle 'chase' in and out, and has a switch to change to the 'all on at once' mode.

"PEEPWORLD" (2007)

25 monumentos soviéticos abandonados en Yugoslavia

Parecen venidos del futuro, además de ser un espanto. Representaban la ideología soviética y fueron encargados por el presidente Tito en los años 60 y 70. Tras la caída del muro pasaron al olvido y abandono.

25 Abandoned Yugoslavia Monuments that look like they're from the Future | Crack Two

Trabajos de Dietrich Wagner

vía mira y calla

Dietrich Wagner combina fotografía y escultura, y sorprende entre su trabajo estos bebés tatuados como reflejo de la contradicción humana.

Ivan Lovatt, esculturas de alambre

Impresionantes estas esculturas hechas de alambre, creadas por el escultor de Ivan Lovatt.

Nacido en Nairobi, Kenya, Lovatt pasó gran parte de su infancia en la Africa salvaje para más tarde pasar por Inglaterra, Gales, Alemania y finalmente emigrar a Australia.

     

      

   

    

     

  

   

Portraits in Wire - ivan lovatt sculpture