Terrifying Hyper-Realistic Sculpture Of A Fallen Angel By Chinese Artist Duo
Beijing artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu have been known to create installations using real cadavers or human fat tissue, and though their newest creation does not include these macabre parts, it’s so realistic and unsettling that it might as well. This realistic sculpture, titled “Angel,” depicts a fallen angel in the form of an old woman, her wings devoid of feathers, that seems to be sleeping or perhaps dead. It was made from silica gel, fibreglass, stainless steel, and woven mesh.
The artist statement on their website cryptically reveals the project’s purpose: highlighting the tension and transition between the supernatural and the mundane. The angel, a transcendent being, has become powerless, unable to carry out God’s will, or to help those who believe in its existence.
According to biblical sources, Cherubim and Seraphim are the only types of angels that have wings (Exodus 25:20, Ezekiel 10, Isaiah 6). Hebrews 1:14 describes angels simply as spiritual beings; therefore, it is most correct to say that only some angels are winged.
More info: sunyuanpengyu.com (h/t: designyoutrust)
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I'm not an expert but probably all birds' featherless wings look like this, not only the dead chicken you cook. So this is accurate to me.
I never even thought chicken wing when I saw the picture! I just thought a vey old and tired angel trapped that had lost its feathers! Amazing how the mind translates the same into some totally different.
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What an amazing sculpture! If I didn't know that it was manufactured then I would have immediately thought it was a real person.
To my mind it seems to be a fine impersonation of transformation, related to the image of a FALLEN ANGEL
Es la versión hiperrealista de un hombre muy viejo con las alas enormes de Gabriel garcía Marquez. Si puede ser imaginado ... puede ser hiperreal ... por que no!!
I think that we tend to think of Angels as infinite beings. This installation makes one think that Angels also get old and tired, and (dare I say it?) die of old age.
Eye full, heart is heavily full. great to my perception. why did i got to know it so late? publicity issue ???
Thats not really realistic, I mean it looks like a human being but the wings are Way too short to carry a person.
Read "un señor muy biejo con las alas enormes" from Gabriel García Márquez and this wont be so "nope"
I agree..my first thought.::chicken wings:: on an aged man. Disturbing in my humble opinion.
I dont thonk sngels are getying ever older,they supposed to be perfect plus they are souls in heaven.
This cud be ture dat a angel fall frm the sky this is very cool I never seen this before but I feel it's ture it look very real to me
am amzed,i thought it was real.saw it on an fb page so i googled it.the detailing and precision is amzing.
well, at least they weren't cut off bloody stumps. or burned, charred edges.
It's soooo creepy, but what's the point? I mean what do they want to tell with this?????!
Creepy cool. I think my 11 year old would have nightmares for a week if she ran across this.
A fallen Angel.. meaning it did something wrong and now there here the wings could fall off eventually ... it's just a sculpture not..
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Since the whole idea of angels is sweet but idiotic, I find the art appropriate.
Certainly does look like a chicken wing. Why would an angel have a what looks like a toe nail. Wouldn't that be some satanic thing?
Why does this angel have bald chicken wings? Pass the blue cheese dressing please!
America or USA? And why- communism is falling- USA is not?!?
Load More Replies... I'm not an expert but probably all birds' featherless wings look like this, not only the dead chicken you cook. So this is accurate to me.
I never even thought chicken wing when I saw the picture! I just thought a vey old and tired angel trapped that had lost its feathers! Amazing how the mind translates the same into some totally different.
Load More Replies... What an amazing sculpture! If I didn't know that it was manufactured then I would have immediately thought it was a real person.
To my mind it seems to be a fine impersonation of transformation, related to the image of a FALLEN ANGEL
Es la versión hiperrealista de un hombre muy viejo con las alas enormes de Gabriel garcía Marquez. Si puede ser imaginado ... puede ser hiperreal ... por que no!!
I think that we tend to think of Angels as infinite beings. This installation makes one think that Angels also get old and tired, and (dare I say it?) die of old age.
Eye full, heart is heavily full. great to my perception. why did i got to know it so late? publicity issue ???
Thats not really realistic, I mean it looks like a human being but the wings are Way too short to carry a person.
Read "un señor muy biejo con las alas enormes" from Gabriel García Márquez and this wont be so "nope"
I agree..my first thought.::chicken wings:: on an aged man. Disturbing in my humble opinion.
I dont thonk sngels are getying ever older,they supposed to be perfect plus they are souls in heaven.
This cud be ture dat a angel fall frm the sky this is very cool I never seen this before but I feel it's ture it look very real to me
am amzed,i thought it was real.saw it on an fb page so i googled it.the detailing and precision is amzing.
well, at least they weren't cut off bloody stumps. or burned, charred edges.
It's soooo creepy, but what's the point? I mean what do they want to tell with this?????!
Creepy cool. I think my 11 year old would have nightmares for a week if she ran across this.
A fallen Angel.. meaning it did something wrong and now there here the wings could fall off eventually ... it's just a sculpture not..
Load More Replies... Since the whole idea of angels is sweet but idiotic, I find the art appropriate.
Certainly does look like a chicken wing. Why would an angel have a what looks like a toe nail. Wouldn't that be some satanic thing?
Why does this angel have bald chicken wings? Pass the blue cheese dressing please!
America or USA? And why- communism is falling- USA is not?!?
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