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"Agora" by Magdalena Abakanowicz (2003) (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
 art -(to be removed, see EN descr.), sculpture, interesting place

"Agora" consists of 106 hulking cast iron sculptures shaped like wrinkled human lower bodies, each about 3 meters tall and weighing about 680 kg. Commissioned by the Polish government and funded in part by Robin Williams, it took the artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz, two years to make them.

www.abakanowicz.art.pl/
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Coordinates:   41°52'5"N   87°37'24"W

Comments

  • Ironclad1
    Every time I see this "artwork" it just looks like a bunch of Gossamer characters from the classic Looney Tunes cartoons (minus the tennis shoes!)
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