Sculptural Weirdness in Public Places, Part 1

"QUANTUM SHOT" #546 Link - by Avi Abrams Maddeningly bizarre, "cast in stone" - so people will have to live with it! We have to say right away: we love these wicked additions to urban landscape - the weirder the better, less boring gray expanses and zombie-spawning parking lots! But we have to ask ourselves, what sort of oxygen these artists were inhaling, and what sort of psychedelic lunch they were eating before going on with something like this (see more than 85 examples below, some maybe slightly nsfw!). As in some other DRB posts, we number each sculpture, and let you vote in the comments which one is the most unforgettable, disturbing and bizarre! As for me, I am going to erect a metal scarecrow on the roof of my building to scare off police helicopters, or build a nutty shrine for squirrels in my backyard, all the while fighting off local zombing...er, "zoning" by-law enforcers. Should we start with the SuperLambBanana? Sure! - 1. Liverpool, England - via 2. People, shot full of holes, appropriately across L.A. Police Department, other one - via 3. A little overweight, Erevan, Armenia 4. San Jose, Costa Rica - via 5. "Unfinished City of Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Project # 8" - via Erik 6. The Lady Fish, San Francisco - via Kurt Rogers / The Chronicle 7 and 8. More wonderful urban sharks in San Jose, California - via 9. Disabled statue on Trafalgar Square in London, more info - via 10. Finger sculpture, similar to "Le Pouce" one, in France - via 11. City of Wilmington's tribute to the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot - via Erik 12. "The Angel of the North" in Gateshead, England - via 13. Happy in Chattanooga, Tennessee - via Sean Phipps 14. Skull involved in non-traditional activity, Prague - via Patton 15. Nameless example somewhere in Russia 16. Don't come close - via 17. Armenia, Erevan - via 18. Nazgul is spotted in Prague, the same one sits in Salzburg, Austria - via 19. Instead of surveillance camera... 20. David Cerny's classic "Pissing Men", Prague - via 21. Monument to Franz Kafka, Prague - via 22. Heavenly angel, resting... Prague again - via 23. Marionette Theater in Prague - via 24. Potsdam, Germany - via 25. Chattanooga, Tennessey - via Sean Phipps 26. Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia - via 27. A guy and a horse melting into a blob - but rather, this is Baron Münchhausen, pulling himself up; 28. Watering problem solved, Wateringen, Holland - via 29. Beheaded "things", and pots... in Moscow - via 30. Resting from trouble, in Moscow - via 31. More Russian characters 32. A Street Sweeper, by Tzereteli - via 33. Hungry customers share a biscuit, via 34. Try to sit on this bench (street art by Brad Downey) 35. ...in the meantime something big and round is getting ready to fall; Barcelona, Spain 36. Turin, Italy 37. Illustration to the "Fox and Crow" fable by Krylov - via 38. A kiss in Kharkov, Ukraine 39. A fat, fat pigeon, Raffle Place, Singapore - via 40. Ear creature in Cologne, Germany 41. Buddies, in Cheltenham, England - via 42. Hidden in the trees, Amsterdam - via 43. "A Running Knot", frolicking in grass, - via 44. More plumbing atrocities, in Mytyschi, Moscow 45. Crying Skull Monument, in Malmö, Sweden at the Triangeln Square - via 46. Some parenting angst, in Vigelands Park, Oslo - Norway, more info - via 47. Holey umbrella in Minsk, Belarus 48. Bathers in Singapore - via 49. Is this troll (Seattle, Washington) - 50. - is reaching for this purse? (Melbourne, Australia) - via 51. Flying families, Moscow... 52. and overturned horses (by David Cerny, Prague) - via 53. Urban guys resting 54. and working... in Stockholm, Sweden, right outside Berzelii Park - via 55, 56. Weird faces in Moscow, via Tatiana Ionova 57. Statue in Hungary, definitely having issues... 58. Steampunk character, "Birth Machine Baby" by H. R. Giger, more - via 59. Spectacular urban "fountain" in Karlsruhe, Germany - via Ryan Stoker 60. A miserable student in one of Russian universities 61. And another miserable guy, Nuremberg, Germany - more 62. Bicycle in concrete, in Sarajevo. 63. FDR Memorial in Washington, DC - via 64. Downtown Salt Lake City, showing "Survival of the Fattest", info 65. Anatomy lesson in Manhattan - via 66. These ones are classics... Melbourne, Australia 67. Los Angeles, California - via 68. These are probably less known: "Cry in the Wilderness" in Minsk 69. and playful sculptures, unknown location 70. Some metamorphosis, unknown 71. Square head in meditation, in Nice, France - via 72. Strong! 73. and weak... Melbourne, Australia - via 74. Lenin having a break from politics 75. Russian chair stands firm on ice 76. Our melting economy, installation in Manhattan, more info - via 77. The Bear is doing great (Berlin) 78. ... and the Bull is dead (Manhattan), Photoshop? - via 79. While humans worship MacDonalds (with Photoshop help) ... 80. Apes are studying classics! - via 81. Mermaid milking herself, Bologna, Italy 82. and a guy, not really having a brain, looks like... - via 83. More milking, Treviso, Italy 84. and robot sculpture from "Laputa", Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan - via Now, for the unnumbered stuff, which is simply too interesting to be put into one voting pool: Communist monuments in Yugoslavia (built in memory of various WWII battles) remind me of Flying Spaghetti Monsters... or "Neon Genesis Evangelion": (images credit: Jan Kempenaers) This is an entirely different kind of street art (Germany), simply brilliant: (image via) Speaking about monuments simply crying for context... Look at the founding fathers of Communism, looking down on Nazi soldier entering a building... Anyone has details? - This is only a first part of projected (truly monumental) series, so send us tips and images of whatever sculptural weirdness you spotted in public places! Permanent Link......+StumbleUpon ...+Facebook Category: Architecture,Weird