The largest toothpick mosaic was 8m2 (86.11 sq. feet) by Saimir Strati (Albania) and displayed at the Arbnori International Centre of Culture, Tirana, Albania on 4 September 2007. The artist used 1.5 million toothpicks and worked 40 days to achieve this record. (GBR)
""Strati spent 13 hours a day for 40 days on the mosaic measuring two by four meters in a technique resembling digital camera pixels, using either sharpened or blunt ends of oak, poplar and bamboo toothpicks.
He told Reuters the idea to produce the mosaic came to him while he tried to explain to a friend what La Sagrada Familia, the unfinished Barcelona cathedral of Spanish architect and artist Antoni Gaudi, looked like.
"I took some toothpicks from the table and opened them to show him how it looked like," said Strati. "I named the horse 'Reinless Spirit' to honour Gaudi's flight of genius."
The mosaic was shown to the public in the round hall of Tirana's pyramid-shaped culture centre. Strati's portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's largest mosaic of nails, is shown nearby.""
2 comments:
Very cool!
If they were the minty toothpicks, that would be awesome! But just think of all those toothpick wrappers he had to open!
Post a Comment