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Offline Yorkie

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« Reply #2280 on: October 18, 2012, 08:17:49 am »
Well done SDQ  -  Just where Hollins was a couple of days ago!!  Surprised no one else picked it up!   &well&
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« Reply #2281 on: October 18, 2012, 09:01:55 am »
Who is the artist behind this statue and where in the world would you find it?


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« Reply #2282 on: October 18, 2012, 10:44:38 am »
Is it wrex wasting away in 2020 on the North Shore after just finally getting CCBC to do something about the lack of sand?

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« Reply #2283 on: October 18, 2012, 11:55:46 am »
Think it is by Alberto Giacometti but haven't a clue where it may be, unless it is the Sahara Desert!   ZXZ
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« Reply #2284 on: October 18, 2012, 03:21:41 pm »
I think Yorkie is spot on and the Walking man statue is in the Nevada Desert.   

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« Reply #2285 on: October 18, 2012, 04:11:36 pm »
I think Yorkie is spot on and the Walking man statue is in the Nevada Desert.

I don't think that the sculpture is the walking man.   The walking man is actually depicted in a walking pose, whereas this one appears to be stationary.   In fact this one could be by a different sculptor entirely!
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« Reply #2286 on: October 18, 2012, 04:23:37 pm »
I'm afraid that is incorrect, wrong continent too!!
Will give you a clue if you can't get it (and give me time to think one up!!!)

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« Reply #2287 on: October 18, 2012, 04:47:53 pm »
Should add that this is one of 51 sculptures in this area by the same artist.  He modelled them on the people who lived in the nearest township to the installation.

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« Reply #2288 on: October 18, 2012, 04:55:14 pm »
Borgonovo, Switzerland is the best I can suggest.   I think this may be "The falling man" but still not sure.
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« Reply #2289 on: October 18, 2012, 04:58:39 pm »
Sorry still wrong continent!  So that is Europe and the Americas out!!
The artist is British but born to a German mother and Irish Father and grew up in Yorkshire!

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« Reply #2290 on: October 18, 2012, 06:06:46 pm »
Would never have got it without your last clue Jack!
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Lake Ballard is located 49.3kms NorthWest of Menzies, 166.47kms NorthWest of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, 170.46kms South of Leinster and 282.17kms NorthEast of Mukinbudin, in the state of Western Australia.
Salt Lake 51km from Menzies. Significant for its 51 sculptures by Antony Gormley , who scanned the locals and mapped there bodies in 3D, then reduced them to 2/3rds there normal size. The finished product is a sculpture refered to as the insider. The cast is an alloy made from molybdenum, vanadium and titanium , materials that are found in the Archean Rock of W.A. Best time to view the sculptures are sunset, sunrise and on a full moon!!

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« Reply #2291 on: October 18, 2012, 06:20:32 pm »
Just got back on line so missed the excitement.  Never gave Gormley a thought!  Better change my name.  _))*
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« Reply #2292 on: October 18, 2012, 08:24:50 pm »
Yes congratulations Hugo, Lake Ballard Western Australia.  I went a couple of years ago and what an extraordinary location for a work of art, literally miles from anywhere down a dirt road, temperatures reaching 46 degrees centigrade and it has only rained there 7 times in 215 years. 

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« Reply #2293 on: October 18, 2012, 09:33:55 pm »
Thanks for that Jack, how fascinating.
So were these the precursor to the Crosby ones, do you know?

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