Terrifying Hyper-Realistic Sculpture Of A Fallen Angel By Chinese Artist Duo
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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.
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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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Because you totally know what a "real" angel looks like. You see them every day, right?
Are you an idiot?
He was referring to the accuracy of a featherless bird wing!
that's very cool.
a fallen angels don't have chicken wing nope nope nope not right
And when was the last time you've seen an angel?
...or a chicken that size.
what do you think bird wings look like without feathers?? -_-
have you ever seen one?
Its Art.
It's obviously a dead angel who's fallen because the feathers have fallen off the wings d'oh! And any featherless wing will look like that!
Mild sauce on my wings please?
Ur. Righy
I'm pretty sure the was when it fell it lost is feathers.
The point was*
It looks a little bit like a chiken's wing but just because we usually see them without feathers...
I agree, specially because chickens can't fly.
Barbora, no they can't. My parents raise chickens. Not the meat-chickens, but normal chickens who lay eggs. Their feathers are not shortened and they are roaming free in the yard, not in cages. Those chickens fly about 5 meters if they're scared out of sudden (by a dog, for example). I wouldn't call that a flight. A wing assisted jump maybe. Chickens definitely can't fly in a such way most other birds do.
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Chicken can fly ;) they dont cuz people are cutting their feathers on wings or they are in cages. You cant fly in a cage ;)
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!!
pensé lo mismo! es aquel relato..
Angel wings are starting to sound good right about now.
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.
This is beautiful.
Amazing... good job!
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"
Angels are inherently unrealistic.
I'll have the Mild sauce on my wings please?
WOW 0-0
Kinda powerful...
This reminds me of the short story by gabriel garcia marquez, an old man with enormous wings
I agree..my first thought.::chicken wings:: on an aged man. Disturbing in my humble opinion.
Tragicomico... para não dizer triste!
Not true
The wings are creepy
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.
Gene modified person maybe in scientific experiment at first half of twentieth century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIlg0yM0XKg
Terrifying? Hardly.
OMG, so creepy!
well, at least they weren't cut off bloody stumps. or burned, charred edges.
A bit disturbing, but cool...
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Very Realistic
It's soooo creepy, but what's the point? I mean what do they want to tell with this?????!
Shit that's odd
Kinda creepy but cool...
This is disturbing!
I vote for feathers - a la Wings of Desire.
so realistic. It's in an angel trap, baited w/apples?
Creepy cool. I think my 11 year old would have nightmares for a week if she ran across this.
is she actually dead???
I think she is yes
Why would an angel be old? Did he age on his way down or what?
A fallen Angel.. meaning it did something wrong and now there here the wings could fall off eventually ... it's just a sculpture not..
There're maybe reasons, both artist denounce a fact. For example with "Zhu Yu eating", it's about the law in China (one and only baby per couple) it's creepy yeah. About "Angel" I don't know, need to do research
pretty cool
No wonder it fell out of the sky! chicken wings??
I love and hate it at the same time!
not realistic
Nice as an idea, bad wording. Very ugly picture. Sorry...
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?
You mean like a fallen angel ?????
the Chinese are soooooo racist lol
Iam. Sure. Its. Fake i cant. Accpect this.
Is this how the Chinese see angels ?
Everything people protray to be good as White
Why does this angel have bald chicken wings? Pass the blue cheese dressing please!
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Thiis fallen angel represents America, this is a very communist scculpture.
America or USA? And why- communism is falling- USA is not?!?
D
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.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Because you totally know what a "real" angel looks like. You see them every day, right?
Are you an idiot?
He was referring to the accuracy of a featherless bird wing!
that's very cool.
a fallen angels don't have chicken wing nope nope nope not right
And when was the last time you've seen an angel?
...or a chicken that size.
what do you think bird wings look like without feathers?? -_-
have you ever seen one?
Its Art.
It's obviously a dead angel who's fallen because the feathers have fallen off the wings d'oh! And any featherless wing will look like that!
Mild sauce on my wings please?
Ur. Righy
I'm pretty sure the was when it fell it lost is feathers.
The point was*
It looks a little bit like a chiken's wing but just because we usually see them without feathers...
I agree, specially because chickens can't fly.
Barbora, no they can't. My parents raise chickens. Not the meat-chickens, but normal chickens who lay eggs. Their feathers are not shortened and they are roaming free in the yard, not in cages. Those chickens fly about 5 meters if they're scared out of sudden (by a dog, for example). I wouldn't call that a flight. A wing assisted jump maybe. Chickens definitely can't fly in a such way most other birds do.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Chicken can fly ;) they dont cuz people are cutting their feathers on wings or they are in cages. You cant fly in a cage ;)
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!!
pensé lo mismo! es aquel relato..
Angel wings are starting to sound good right about now.
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.
This is beautiful.
Amazing... good job!
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"
Angels are inherently unrealistic.
I'll have the Mild sauce on my wings please?
WOW 0-0
Kinda powerful...
This reminds me of the short story by gabriel garcia marquez, an old man with enormous wings
I agree..my first thought.::chicken wings:: on an aged man. Disturbing in my humble opinion.
Tragicomico... para não dizer triste!
Not true
The wings are creepy
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.
Gene modified person maybe in scientific experiment at first half of twentieth century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIlg0yM0XKg
Terrifying? Hardly.
OMG, so creepy!
well, at least they weren't cut off bloody stumps. or burned, charred edges.
A bit disturbing, but cool...
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Very Realistic
It's soooo creepy, but what's the point? I mean what do they want to tell with this?????!
Shit that's odd
Kinda creepy but cool...
This is disturbing!
I vote for feathers - a la Wings of Desire.
so realistic. It's in an angel trap, baited w/apples?
Creepy cool. I think my 11 year old would have nightmares for a week if she ran across this.
is she actually dead???
I think she is yes
Why would an angel be old? Did he age on his way down or what?
A fallen Angel.. meaning it did something wrong and now there here the wings could fall off eventually ... it's just a sculpture not..
There're maybe reasons, both artist denounce a fact. For example with "Zhu Yu eating", it's about the law in China (one and only baby per couple) it's creepy yeah. About "Angel" I don't know, need to do research
pretty cool
No wonder it fell out of the sky! chicken wings??
I love and hate it at the same time!
not realistic
Nice as an idea, bad wording. Very ugly picture. Sorry...
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?
You mean like a fallen angel ?????
the Chinese are soooooo racist lol
Iam. Sure. Its. Fake i cant. Accpect this.
Is this how the Chinese see angels ?
Everything people protray to be good as White
Why does this angel have bald chicken wings? Pass the blue cheese dressing please!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Thiis fallen angel represents America, this is a very communist scculpture.
America or USA? And why- communism is falling- USA is not?!?
D