Pop-top frocks
New York-based artist Nikos Floros has created an artistic tribute to La Divina herself from 20 thousand beer and soft drink cans for an art exhibition in Athens.
The exhibition includes a sculptural gown inspired by Maria Callas's costume for Iphigénie en Tauride featuring ring-pulls that become a lace-like collar. A kimono sculpture is inspired by Madama Butterfly.
"Today’s temples are supermarkets, malls and department stores," the artist says. "That's where you exist."
Over a period of five years, Floros purchased more than 200,000 aluminium cans of soft drinks and beer and turned them into large-scale sculptures dedicated to La Divina’s spirit, among other things.
"Opera Sculptured Costumes" is on display at the National Bank of Greece’s Melas Mansion through October 19.
The exhibition includes a sculptural gown inspired by Maria Callas's costume for Iphigénie en Tauride featuring ring-pulls that become a lace-like collar. A kimono sculpture is inspired by Madama Butterfly.
"Today’s temples are supermarkets, malls and department stores," the artist says. "That's where you exist."
Over a period of five years, Floros purchased more than 200,000 aluminium cans of soft drinks and beer and turned them into large-scale sculptures dedicated to La Divina’s spirit, among other things.
"Opera Sculptured Costumes" is on display at the National Bank of Greece’s Melas Mansion through October 19.
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5 Comments:
Have to admit, that is pretty cool.
Wow! Look what a newyorker can tell you about your hometown! i didn't have a clue about this!
Here you ll find a some pics
http://www.starbuzz.gr/?c=130&a=1803
quite amazing and strangely beautiful.. much like the voice of the woman it celebrates...
My kind of recycling! If I'd known he was doing this, I might have driven down to NYC with a truckload of my empty Diet Coke cans, and the heck with losing the deposits! Back when I was a little girl in the late 1960s, when beer and soda cans had pull tabs, my friends and I liked to make belts and jewelry with them, but none of us would have DREAMED of such a project! Cool!
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