The Art of the Brick @ La Bourse
21 Nov 2013 - 20 Apr 2014
The Art of the Brick exhibition is displayed on a surface of 1,300 m² more than 60 impressive new objects in a new genre : exceptional works of art created with hundreds of thousands LEGO® building blocks. Whether real or fictional, the characters and objects created by Nathan Sawaya are amazing and leave visitors completely speechless. This travelling exhibition is one of the most extraordinary and innovative exhibitions in recent memory touching both young and old and thus truly accessible to all. For CNN, this is "One of the Top 10 Must See Global Exhibitions".
The Art of the Brick
Among the most stunning and unexpected 3D creations,The Art of the Brick exhibits reconstructions, often interpreted, of universally known works of art, like Rodin’s « The Thinker », the « Venus de Milo », Edvard Munch’s «The Scream » - where the hands and head explode from the 2-dimesional to the 3-dimensional ! - or « The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait » by Jan van Eyck - where the characters are outside the painting.
When discovering the various exhibition spaces, the visitor will suddenly encounter the North transept rose window of Chartres Cathedral, a Buddha or huge sculptures like the 6 metre long T-Rex skeleton made out of 80,020 bricks. Other works are completely new creations from the artist’s imagination : a female swimmer, a man opening his chest to reveal a treasure of Lego bricks, another losing his hands, human figures topped by a geometric shaped head... For the Brussels exhibition, Nathan Sawaya has even designed a... Manneken Pis!
