15 stylish sculptures from around the world (15 photos)

The strangest and most amazing sculptures from around the world.

1. Mustangs of Las Colinas, Texas, USA





This is one of the largest sculptural groups of horses in all. the world. Bronze statues are 1.5 times larger than real mustangs, although photographs, their size may not seem so impressive due to high-rise buildings nearby. At the feet of the animals are installed special fountains that imitate splashes from hooves.

2. Monument to a woman's handbag, Italy



The sculpture was first presented in Italy at the exhibition “Thoughts. Space. Dialogue between nature and imagination.

3. Monument to the designer, Krasnoyarsk, Russia



The monument is a workplace designer-printer: table, chair, computer, table lamp and even jacket - only the designer-printer himself is missing.

4. Knotted gun, New York, USA



The sculpture was created by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reutersworth in late 1980 to commemorate the assassination of John Lennon.

5. Traveler, Marseille, France



This is a whole series of figures that adorn not only the streets of Marseille, but also many famous world exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art.

6. Unknown official, Reykjavik, Iceland



The Unknown Official was created in 1994 by an Icelandic artist and sculptor Magnus Tomasson. This is the most witty and expressive sculpture in Reykjavik, rich in small architectural forms. And at this is the most inconspicuous.

7. Headington Shark, Oxford, UK



The meaning of the sculpture is much deeper than it might seem at first glance: It was installed on the 41st anniversary of the fall of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The shark depicts a beautiful but potentially deadly rocket.

8. De Vaartkapoen, Brussels, Belgium



The monument was erected in 1985 on one of the streets of Brussels in the area Molenbeek. The plot is reminiscent of a scene from a comic book: from the sewer manhole suddenly a young prankster leans out and knocks the policeman off his feet, grabbing the law enforcement officer by the leg. Author - Belgian sculptor Tom FRANZEN.

9. Monument to Nelson Mandela, South Africa



The profile of Nelson Mandela is made of 50 steel columns-plates - according to number of years since Mandela's arrest. His image is only visible from a certain point, from other angles it's just a set of standing side by side columns with each other.

10. Force of nature, Qatar



This is the name of a series of sculptures by the Italian artist Lorenzo Quin, in which depicts a woman holding the globe with a piece of cloth. Sculptures are installed in many cities around the world - in England, the USA, Monaco and Singapore.

11. Wedding rings, Vancouver, Canada



One of Vancouver's most original attractions. Rings made of steel, aluminum and glass. They are angled and it looks like they are about to lose their balance. In fact "Wedding rings" tightly "sit" on their base, symbolizing the strength of the marriage.

12. People by the river, Singapore



Chong Fah Chong, the author of this composition, is known for a large number of sculptures depicting people who live and work on the banks of the river Singapore.

13. Monument to Franz Kafka, Prague, Czech Republic



The author's idea of ​​the sculptor Yaroslav Rona is not known for certain. One of versions goes back to Kafka's story "The Story of a Struggle", the hero of which envious of a random fellow traveler and climbed onto his shoulders to see the world through someone else's eyes. Caught in a "foreign skin", he got rid of envy of a stranger, because everyone has their own pain.

14. Official Themis, Denmark



Sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galshiot is a plump figure of the goddess of justice -symbol of the rich industrial of the world — who sits on the back of a thin, emaciated African.

15. Monument to Sigmund Freud, Prague, Czech Republic



According to one of the popular versions, David Cherny so showed isolation intellectuals from the common people. The master has invested in his creation such magical attraction that guests of Prague will never forgive themselves, if they do not look at the "suspended" stone Freud.