Check out this interesting Nelson Mandela sculpture below. It consists of 50 ten metre high laser cut steel plates set into the landscape, representing the 50 year anniversary of when and where Mandela was captured and arrested in 1962
Standing at a particular point (presumably the spot where the people are standing in Photo #2), the columns come into focus and the image of Mandela can be seen.
The sculptor is Marco Cianfanelli, of Johannesburg
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Jan 28, 2013 @ 08:09:59
WOW!!!!!!!
Apparently no other comment would do…..
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:14:26
It certainly is quite original
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Jan 28, 2013 @ 09:20:37
Dis awesome verby!
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:14:43
Absoluut!
Jan 28, 2013 @ 12:01:40
that is really blood clever 🙂
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:15:05
Clever indeed and so original!
Jan 28, 2013 @ 12:56:36
I agree with ioanna. WOW! That’s all I can think of. 🙂
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:16:07
Quite different from the usual kind of art we get here and I think we all had our fill of statues too!
Jan 28, 2013 @ 18:13:10
Technical masterpiece.
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:17:58
Absolutely…
This guy is really good at math
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Jan 30, 2013 @ 19:38:23
LOL, the engineer of this masterpiece is my best friend’s husband. He showed me the site when I was last in PMB last year 🙂
Jan 31, 2013 @ 09:45:39
And now you tell me
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Jan 29, 2013 @ 01:34:40
Awesome!
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:18:37
It really is so ‘out of’ Africa
Jan 29, 2013 @ 05:45:09
Where is it?
Jan 29, 2013 @ 06:19:30
I was dreading this question because I do not know exactly must be in Johannesburg environs though
Jan 30, 2013 @ 19:40:00
Somewhere outside Pietermaritzburg KZN midlands…I can find out the exact spot for you
Jan 30, 2013 @ 19:47:23
Howick read here http://www.southafrica.info/mandela/capture-site-open.htm
Jan 31, 2013 @ 09:47:04
Thanks for this. Shows you how very little I really know of S A ‘history’ after the 2nd WW!
Jan 29, 2013 @ 07:02:43
It is amazing.. WOuld love to see it in person!!
Jan 29, 2013 @ 07:06:53
Yes we (I) should really make an effort to go and see it for myself too
Jan 29, 2013 @ 07:10:47
Oh, wow…. This is simply amazing…!
I’ve just read the comments above, and ‘wow’ and ‘amazing’ seem to be very popular descriptions….!
I love this ‘art form’…. Quite spectacular…!
Jan 29, 2013 @ 07:12:38
I must actually read up about the artist, it is so different from the usual kind of ‘art’ we often get here that it is truly remarkable
Jan 29, 2013 @ 07:14:39
I’d like to see more ‘art’ such as this adorning our shores too….!
Jan 29, 2013 @ 09:36:01
A great blog ,It is quite an innovation, but could have been done on a smaller scale so more people could see the technique.:-) I personally think too much money is being spent on the old ANC cadres and name changing.
Jan 30, 2013 @ 06:31:29
Thanks Leo, yes enough is enough!
Feb 09, 2013 @ 10:20:55
Some artists are geniuses. I’m so glad I found this post on your blog.
Feb 09, 2013 @ 10:52:54
Interesting is it not?
Thanks for stopping by
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Mar 03, 2013 @ 05:08:06
Great art – I love this. Thank you so much for this share. This is just great.