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Dead Mario And Crucified Jesus

7:00PM March 17, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

To depict the true meaning of game over, artist Kordiana Lewandowskeigo called on Mario, Princess Peach and, well, Jesus.

Carved by a 24-year-old Michelangelo, La Pietá shows Mary cradling Jesus in her lap after he has been crucified. The statue was vandalised in the early 1970s when an Australian geologist took a hammer to the sculpture. The work resides in St. Peter’s Basilica behind bullet proof (and hammer proof) glass.

Lewandowskiego’s work “Game Over” is made from a large block of polystyrene foam and features Peach holding Mario in her arms. The work is gaming’s take on Michelangelo’s sculpture.

This photo should give you an idea of just how large the completed work is.

Pieta “Game Over” by ~Kordianl on deviantART [deviantART][Pic]

Comments

  • Stephen Alexander

    March 17, 2010 at 10:29 PM

    Great sculpture, wonder how long that took him. :)

  • Darius

    March 18, 2010 at 10:35 AM

    Laszlo Toth, wielding a Geologist’s hammer and shouting, “I am Jesus Christ — risen from the dead”, attacked the statue, with fifteen blows removed the Virgin’s arm at the elbow, knocked off a chunk of her nose, and chipped one of her eyelids.

  • Sonic

    March 19, 2010 at 9:41 AM

    The scale comparison looks shopped. Probably no bigger than 6 inches.

  • Plum

    March 19, 2010 at 6:58 PM

    Dude is this made of Styrofoam? Lol.

  • Mathew Tate

    March 19, 2010 at 8:50 PM

    This is so epic.

  • n

    March 19, 2010 at 9:29 PM

    Um… grammar correction here.

    You probably took the artist’s name from his portfolio title, which is “Portfolio Kordiana Lewandowskiego”. Now, the trouble is, the guy is Polish, and Polish is an inflexional language: the title would translate into English as “Kordian Lewandowski’s Portfolio” – the form you thought to be his full name is actually the genetive form. His full name in its basic form is Kordian Lewandowski. Please, do make the correction, I’m sure you don’t want to have an error in the text.

  • Jon

    March 20, 2010 at 7:52 AM

    I’ll just be blunt. This isn’t photoshopped. For one, look at the foam shavings on the ground in the first picture. Also look at the background.

    Besides, it’s foam. Why WOULDN’T it be big? It’s probably light as a feather.

    Stop accusing everything of being ‘shopped.’

  • Nashime

    March 20, 2010 at 10:35 AM

    This is an incredible statue! I have always been curious to the art of foam sculpting, and this is at the apex. I wonder how it would look with color?

  • kordian l

    March 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM

    Hello sonic, I’m a guy who made this sculpture :) It has 133 x 200 x 105 cm You probably thought that is photoshop montage because I little change a contrast.

    Is is my webside:

    http://wielkiartysta.pl/

    there is more photos. And I will show photos and movies from my exhibition on you tube soon :)

  • Marcela Lozano

    March 20, 2010 at 1:28 PM

    wow 0_o is amazing, is so big!!!
    … nice sculpture i like it

  • Andy Bundy

    March 20, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    This is quite an amazing sculpture!

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