Concrete sculptures

Mario Irarrázabal – Mano del Desierto (Hand of the Desert), 1992, concrete, iron frame, 11 metres (36 ft) tall, installation view, Atacama Desert, Chile feat

The Hand of the Desert – Chile’s massive sculpture

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

Mano del Desierto (aka the Hand of the Desert) is one Chile’s most talked-about art installations. It is a gigantic cement hand structure jutting 36 feet (around 11 meters) out of the arid sand of the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the emptiest, most barren, and driest places on the face of the planet. The […]

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Josep Maria Subirachs - Monument a Ramon Llull (Escala de l'Enteniment) (Monument to Ramon Llull (Stairway to Understanding)), 1976, concrete, 870 cm, outer area of the Montserrat Monastery, Catalonia, Spain feat

A stairway to heaven? Josep Maria Subirachs’ sculpture in Montserrat

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Situated in Montserrat, Spain, the Stairway of Understanding is one of the most sacred spots in Spain, which explains why it is such a well-known pilgrimage destination among the locals. Millions of tourists visit Montserrat every year to lay eyes on some of the most beautiful monuments in the region. The Stairway to Understanding is

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Alberto Burri - Cretto di Burri (crack of Burri), 1984–2015, concrete, 1.50 x 350 x 280 m (4.9 x 1,150 x 920 ft), Gibellina, Sicily, Italy feat

The magnificent Cretto di Burri – 30 years in the making

Sculptures / 10 minutes of reading

Also known as Cretto di Gibellina (crack of Gibellina) or The Great Cretto, the Cretto di Burri alias crack of Burri is a landscape artwork by Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician Alberto Burri. He started to work on it in 1984 and left it unfinished in 1989 because of a lack of funds.

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Torres de Satélite by Luis Barragan – What you need to know

Architecture, Sculptures / 10 minutes of reading

The Torres de Satélite or Satellite Towers are a collection of sculptures installed in the Ciudad Satelite district of Naucalpan in Mexico State, a few kilometers outside Mexico City. They are considered among Mexico’s first large-scale urban sculptures. The monuments were conceived in 1957 by the famous Mexican painter Jesús Reyes Ferreira, architect Luis Barragan

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These are Anselm Kiefer’s teetering towers

Architecture, Paintings, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

German artist Anselm Kiefer has long maintained a studio at Barjac in southern France, where he assembled his large sculptures and painted some of his dark, disturbing canvases. Now he has abandoned the site, with the wish that it be allowed to “revert to nature.” People exploring the site have been struck by these towers

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Iran do Espírito Santo’s concrete Playground in New York

Architecture, Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Iran do Espírito Santo has over the years managed to become one of the most fascinating contemporary artists not just in Brazil, but in the world as well. Today, he is primarily celebrated for his minimalist projects that cover issues of design, place, surface, structure and material. By using abstracted day-to-day objects, his installations assume

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