Around the world you can find monuments, statues and sculptures displayed in public parks and other places of interests. These public artworks are in most cases, figures of heroes and distinguished individuals who have significant contributions to the country or to the locality. Inasmuch as these statue and sculpture art objects are nothing but ordinary memorial structures, most of them are depicted in a formal and in the most stately fashion. There are however, statue and sculpture art objects which are creatively designed that you would swear, their concept or idea never crossed your mind. This of course does not only refer to statues and sculptures of heroes and statesmen but in large part, to other things like animals and inanimate objects. Yes, in cities around the world, you can find unusual statue and sculpture art objects aside from the usual display of distinguished individuals revered by the community.
1. The Giant Hand, Atacama Desert, Chile
2. Statue of St. Wenceslas riding a dead horse, Prague, Czech Republic
3. Le Pounce Monument, Paris, France
4. The Headington Shark, Oxford, UK
5. Giant Tap, Tecnopark Wintertur, Switzerland
6. Franz Kafka Monument, Prague, Czech Republic
7. Corporate Head, Ernst & Young Building, Los Angeles, California
8. God father on the arch of heaven, Stockholm, Sweden
9. Giant Fork Sculpture, Springfield, Missouri
10. Hanging Rhino, Potsdam, Germany
11. Man Hanging Out, Prague Czech Republic
12. A Crocodile Eating a Capitalist, Brooklyn, New York
13. Charles La Trobe Statue, Melbourne, Australia
14. Cow Popsicle, Budapest, Hungary
15. Headless Musician, Amsterdam, Netherlands
16. Sculpture of a Man in Guadalquivir River, Cordoba, Spain
17. Statue of a Man Sawing a Branch, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18. Violinist Bursting from the Floor, Amsterdam, Netherlands
19. Giant Woman Lying in a Photo Booth, London, England
20. Great Depression Bread Line Statue, New Jersey, USA
21. Man in the Water, Stockholm, Sweden
22. The Knotted Gun, United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA
23. River Children, Singapore
24. Le Passe-Muraille, or Man in the Wall, Paris, France
25. Bench Outside Bukcheon Museum, Seoul, South Korea
26. Die Badende (The Bather), Hamburg, Germany
27. De Vaartkapoen (Policeman Being Tripped), Brussels, Belgium
28. Space Cow, Stockholm, Sweden
29. The Awakening, Washington D.C., USA
30. The Paparazzi, Bratislava, Slovakia
31. Man at Work, Bratislava, Slovakia
32. Urinating Statues, Prague, Czech Republic
33. Hashire, Japan
34. Walking to the Sky, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
35. Metalmorphosis, Charlotte, North Carolina
36. Sala Keoku, Thailand
37. Cloud Gate, Chicago, USA
38. Searching for Utopia, Amsterdam, Netherlands
39. London Ink’s Man Swimming Statue, England
Source: Your Amazing Places
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