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  1. 01-28-2013, 12:01 PM #1
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    Default Nelson Mandela sculpture.

    Im sure many of you are familiar with this somewhat new sculpture, i just find that the artist really made something different with a signification.

    To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s capture by the apartheid police, artist Marco Cianfanelli designed a beautiful sculpture. The installation, which gorgeously displays Mandela’s profile, resides 90km South of Durban, surrounded by a midlands landscape of South Africa, and is made up of 50 anchored steel columns each between 6.5 and 9 meters high. The columns symbolize the prison bars that incarcerated Mandela for 27 years of his life sentence before he went on to become the president of South Africa.

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    Now that is an interesting concept and execution of it.

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    First I've seen of it. But that is truly incredible work! Thanks for posting it!
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    Nice art work!
    I've seen lots of that type of installations and they always fascinates me.
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    That's a beautiful piece - thanks for sharing it!
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