The Motherland Call, Volgograd, Russia, 285 ft, built in 1967
Fabrice Fouillet’s series Colosses, captures gargantuan statues over cities, into mountainsides, in the middle of nowhere or the coutryside- featuring religious and political icons. Fouillet is not interested in the artistic or the sociological meaning of those statues, he wishes to portray how these monuments have altered their surroundings. Why would people need to errect such gigantic creations in the middle of a landscape?
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*for more statues or information check out his website
African Renaissance Monument, Dakar, Senegal, 161 ft, built in 2010
Ataturk Mask, Buca, Izmir, Turkey, 132 ft, built in 2009
Christ Blessing, Manado, Indonesia, 98.5 ft, built in 2007
Christ the King, Świebodzin, Poland, 120 ft, built in 2010
Grand Byakue, Takazaki, Japan, 137 ft, built in 1936
Guan Yu, Yuncheng, China, 262 ft, built in 2010
Mao Zedong, Changsha, China, 105 ft, built in 2009
Mother of the Fatherland, Kiev, Ukraine, 203 ft, built in 1981
Dai Kannon, Sendai, Japan, 330 ft, built in 1991
