This gargantuan bronze spider, called Maman by Louise Bourgeois, weighs 8,165 kg (18,000 lbs) and carries a sac of twenty white marble eggs under her belly. It resides outside the front door of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
This gargantuan bronze spider, called Maman by Louise Bourgeois, weighs 8,165 kg (18,000 lbs) and carries a sac of twenty white marble eggs under her belly. It resides outside the front door of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
Pass the 330 gallon can of Raid please. Now.
ReplyDeleteCool. Her sister is in Tokyo, outside the Mori Art Museum. We saw it this summer.
ReplyDeleteOK, from that perspective, I guess the cluster flies are a minor inconvenience.
ReplyDeleteAnd imagine how much poutine that creature could consume!
I love Maman!
ReplyDeleteRemember we saw her in the snow in Ottawa last February?
ReplyDeleteNope, Big Things can't be art. No way is the Grant's Pass Caveman art...
ReplyDeleteOkay, John, I sort of agree. But how do we stand on the Sasquatch in Happy Camp? Part art, part tacky.
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