Tuesday, September 21, 2010

The Guardians



The Guardians, by Simon Rigg were unveiled in November at Melbourne's Southgate precinct near the Crown Casino, the commissioning body.


These two monumental abstract sculptures carved from Italian statuary marble and clad with ceramic tiles with 6.7m high. The square based mounting of the large statue depicts the four elements. The smaller Guardian reveals a woman's head looking through the hole of the larger sculpture, and hints at the source of all the images, beyond our plane of vision.

11 comments:

Luis Gomez said...

Love it. Really beautiful pieces.

Jim said...

Very colourful. I like them.

Ellen Whyte said...

They look like giant bottle openers. Hmm, maybe that says something about me?

giorno26 ¸¸.•*¨*•. said...

Molto bella questa foto... piena di colori !!!
Buona giornata.

Peter said...

A great choice of subjects- cool!

BraCom said...

interesting photo

Have a nice week,
Greetings, Bram

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NatureFootstep said...

wow, I think I would have walked around these a couple of times before I left it. Thanks for sharing :)

NatureFootstep said...

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Halcyon said...

I really like these sculptures. So colorful and creative!

Anonymous said...

Thank you for sharing these--I love seeing mosaics around the world.

LV said...

What a breathtaking sight. These are such lovely sculptures. The one doing this certainly was talented.

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