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

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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