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| Exhibition view "The Art of the Brick" |
Nathan Sawaya uses LEGO building blocks to create impressive sculptures, either based on famous artworks like e.g. the Venus de Milo, Jan van Eyck’s “The Arnolfini Portrait”, and van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” and much more, or his own imagination. The exhibition titled The Art of the Brick at the Canada Science and Technology Museum shows his unique creations using the well-known children’s building blocks, and the results are astounding!
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| Exhibition view "The Art of the Brick" |
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| A self-portrait of sculptor Nathan Sawaya |
The most interesting part of the exhibition is a bit further down the hallways: Nathan Sawaya’s impressive collaboration with photographer Dean West. Simple objects like an umbrella or water bucket were made out of LEGO and then photographed in very staged everyday moments. Just at second glance, the observer discovers Sawaya’s artifacts in West’s large-scale photographs, and gets an uncanny feeling about the entire depicted scene. Just saying: Gregory Crewdson meets LEGO...
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| Works in the exhibition, Nathan Sawaya’s collaboration with photographer Dean West |
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| This umbrella, fully made of LEGO, appears in one of Dean West's large-scale hyper-realistic photographs. |
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| Exhibition view: That LEGO dog appears on a leash in the Dean West photograph at the wall. |
The show closes on Labour Day.
FACTS:
THE ART OF THE BRICK
Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa
Until September 3, 2018
