If I stumbled across the world’s largest 3D street art in London, my knees would buckle, pee would tinkle down my leg and I’d probably even cry. That’s because the 3D art transforms a regular street into a frighteningly deep gaping pit straight into the middle of the Earth. Just look at it.
The project was made by street artists 3D Joe & Max for Reebok’s CrossFit (there’s an outdoor gym!) and is located in London’s West India Quays, Canary Wharf. It’s officially the world’s larget 3D street art (as measured by Guinness World Record) dialling in at 1160sqm. The whole installation took over seven days to complete and the effect is shocking. You feel like you’re being swallowed by the mouths of hell.
[YouTube via Laughing Squid]
Jubbing
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 5:07 PMLooks so realistic
Andrew
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 8:18 AMAnyone else see a problem with handing out records for “art” based on size?
Evan
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 12:00 PMI don’t; it is still art. Just about anything can be art, if someone decides to call it art. I remember seeing a pile of old, rotting wood nailed to a wall in an art gallery. It won a prize and was sold for a significant sum of money. I thought it was rubbish, still think it was, but clearly to someone it was art.
At least this pavement 3D painting is often very impressive and a welcome relief to otherwise boring cityscapes.
Andrew
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:53 AMThat’s not quite the point. If I make a line drawing of a cube in the desert over a km long it would still technically be 3D art and of course larger than this… so of course it would deserve an award, right?
The point is that craftmanship, concept, emotion, social commentry, and anything else that makes something artistic take a second place to surface area.. probably the last thing that should be used to guage the value of art.
TSH
Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 7:34 PMIIRC Guinness also keeps records on the most expensive pieces of art. This should be treated like that – neither is a measure of artistic value, it’s just a piece of interesting trivia.
Lachlan
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 4:32 PMIt looks so realistic!!! can’t even tell which way the waterfall is painted, quite literally. Very cool indeed.