SCULPTURES

SCULPTURES, STATUES, CRAFTMANSHIP AND ARCHITECTURE

Imaginative and creative sculptures, contemporary art, craftmanship and architecture we encountered and fancied during our road trips through Europe.

A sculpture is a three-dimensional work of art. It can be made of stone, metal, clay, or other materials. 

A statue is an artwork that depicts a person or an animal or part of a person or animal. The terms sculpture and statue are often used interchangeably.

 

Creativity is contagious, pass it on 

Albert Einstein

El Pensador (the Thinker) by Juan Ripollés, Castellón de la Plana, Valencia, Spain.

De Scheepsjongens van de Bonte Koe, the cabin boys of the Bonte Koe´s voyage to the East Indies (1618-1620) in Hoorn, the Netherlands.

De Notenkrakerrrr (the Nutcracker) by Albert Dedden and Paul Keizer in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.

Sculpture of British mountaineer Edward Whymper, L'Argentière la Bessée, France

"Kip Ekvorne" by Francisek Smerdu next to the Ljubljanica River, representing Ekvorna, the patron goddess of Ljulbjana and the Barje region, Ljubljana, Montenegro.

"Il volo del Castagno", wooden art piece by Luca Germena , Villar Focchiardo, Torino, Italy

Tuercebarras (Iron bar bender) by Jesús Lizaso at the Campo Volantín near the Zubi Zuri Bridge in Bilbao, Spain.

Puppy by Jeff Koons in front of Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao.

Lobster Cactus by Philip Colbert for the BAM Event 2022 in Treviso, Italy.

Veado by Adália Costinho Alberto in Nazaré, Portugal 

Artistic iron work by Aznar Ginès from Atelier La Marquise in Villeneuve Minervois in the Aude dept. of France

Le Chien Totor or Totor de Ciemiez in Nice, France by visual artist and sculptor Stéphane Bolongaro from Nice. 

Large pine tree sculpture on the seafront promenade of La Pineda in Tarragona by designer Javier Mariscal from Valencia

Macronyx and Larissa, contemporary art by the Belgian artist Arne Quinze at the Poniente boulevard in Benidorm.

Two out of the six large outdoor sculptures which were originally created for the "My Secret Garden" exposition at the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia 

The ‘Dalí en Levitation’ statue shows the artist sitting on a high red chair, 3.6 metres wide and 2.3 metres high. He is facing towards the train station, which he proclaimed the centre of the universe, his arms open wide, welcoming visitors to Perpignan in France. It is situated on the Place de Catalogne and was put in place in 2017 but originally created in 2000 by the two artists Sabine et Eric, known as ‘Les Pritchards.’ It was inspired by Dali’s 1965 painting, Le mystique de la gare de Perpignan, and was originally placed on the roof of the station.

In the new modern train station JLLA of Aveiro in Portugal are two colorful cow sculptures exposed from the Cow Parade Exposition Lisboa 2006.

Huge roundabout artworks in Orpesa del Mar. Two huge shiny metal sculptures in the holiday seaside town Marina d'Or in the province of Castellón in Spain

Marina d'Or, Oropesa, Valencia, Spain

Neptune sculpture in Cullera, Valencia, Spain. Homage to Enrique Torres, the late owner of restaurant La Mar Salà, sculpted by José Lafarga

Zaandam, the Netherlands

"Whispers" by Arne Quinze (see above art in Benidorm) are 20 hardened steel, brightly colored sculptures of 3 to 11 meters high, on the Koningsplein in Enschede, the Netherlands

Colorful and very imaginative modern art sculptures of regional artist Ripolles at the Huerto Sogueros square in Castellón de la Plana, Valencia, Spain

This artwork is part of the Horse Parade, an art and culture route made up of 11 horses scattered throughout the region around Alkmaar in the Netherlands. The horse at the Kennemersingel was created by Mattia Ilić and has the title 'Small Memory of Alkmaar'. The horse is called Adam, after one of the first mayors of Alkmaar

The "Hung Galaxy" is a colorful large sculpture of two amorous swans by Taiwanese artist Hung-Li at the Poniente Beach in Benidorm at the Costa Blanca in Spain

Sofa of pans and lids, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Metro station Santa Eulàlia, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Birds of spoons and forks, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium