HELSINKI, FINLAND 🇫🇮 STREET ART: THE BATHING MAIDEN by KAUKO RÄSÄNEN

‘Risen from the sea’ – 1.5 metres high 🧑‍🎨:Kauko Räsänen (1926-2015) made a plaster model of the sculpture in 1953, but it wasn’t cast in bronze until 1974. It was bought by the City and erected in Pasila in 1975. Also known as `The Bathing maiden’.
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The work belongs to the collections of the Helsinki Art Museum.
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Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮
28june22

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: 2 FEMALE NUDES EMBRACING

This larger than life sculpture is located in front of the Finance Tower in the center of Brussels. I believe the sculptor is from Milan, Italy. ” ‘Fonderia D’Arte De Andreis, Milano’ (Milan, Italy). And an engraved inscription gives a name that appears to be ‘Nat Helligan’, and the apparent dates 1952-1984. ” https://www.flickr.com/photos/22325431@N05/4038175688

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23aug19. Brussels, Belgium.

NEW YORK CITY POP-UP ART: BLISS by URS FISCHER

Swedish sculptor Urs Fischer created a clay bust of Katy Perry called “BLISS,” and people are invited to interact with the piece and make their own creations on it and around it: 

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22nov17 39 Spring Street, SoHo, New York City