Festival of sand sculptures in Kaunas

May 27, 2010 17:19

Competition is the main driver of progress :)))
Akropolis shopping and leisure center in Kaunas time to time organizes shows with the aim to attract more visitor. This time they organized festival of sand sculptures. And today I had the occasion to visit open air exhibition.



And here are my impressions.

Area is guarded since exposition is volatile :)))



The general view:



Several smaller sculptures:





Together with foreign architectural landmarks you can find the local one also :)))



And now the bigger ones.

Sphinx:



Famous in the past Lithuanian basketball player A. Sabonis: playing but his face is moder (I mean at the age of 45 :)))  (sculptor Donatas Mockus):



Shrek of course (British author Christopher Sqiuer):



Jurrasic park (author Finnish sculptor Jukka Lakela):




This is Michael Jackson (Latvian sculptor Sandis Kondrats):



Author still working on it :)))



Michael Schumacher (British author Zara Gaze) :



If you do not believe :)))



Latvian Karlis Ile prepared also sculptor of Lithuanian erotic model Oksana Pikul:



Sculpture "Radio center" showing discussion between Dalia Grybauskaite, Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and radio host Vytenis Sinkevicius (author also Karlis Ile):



Sculpture "Heroes of animation" . despite that you can recognize many personalities from old soviet period animations the author is Briton Christopher Squier:



In God we thrust. The author is Japanese with very European name Eva Mcgrew:



Exposition will be open till the middle of August. But I don't have any idea how they will be able to protect sculptures from rain and wind ?



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