Huge hand in the Atacama Desert

Giant hand protruding from the Atacama Desert in Chile at first glance looks like the last remnants of a lost civilization, but in fact this is a work of large-scale sculpture by the artist Mario Irarrazabal.

It is also called the hand of the desert with a different name is "Mano del Desierto". The mysterious sculptures bring feeling sad is along the Pan-American Highway as tourists like to remind the tragic reality of human beings.

Giant hand protruding from the Atacama desert in Chile.

Mano del Desierto situated at an altitude of 1,100 m above sea level, located about 75 km Antofagastak of Chile to the south. Under the sponsorship of local organizations that Corporacion Pro Antofagasta sculptures are public launch on 03/28/1992.

Like the famous sculptor Antony Gormley of Britain is, Irarrazabal have used the human form in many of their works. Hands raised in this isolated desert contains many human emotions, works as a means for him to communicate the important topics such as injustice, sadness, loneliness, and suffering exist ... in this society.

36m high sculpture of the hand impression of the desert is made of iron and cement. Magnification size sculptures of this emphasis on the sensitive vulnerability and inability to safeguard the people under a certain pressure caused.

Mario Irarrazabal are studied philosophy and art at the University of Notre Dame in India, and theology at the University Pontificia of Italy. He then entered the field of sculpture under the guidance of the German Otto Waldemar.

Sculptural works of his first display in Chile in 1970. This is followed by a series of famous sculptures in the threads about people in particular are emerging hand in the desert, beaches, parks, Mario Irarrazabal be released in subsequent different locations of the different countries. Such as the hand submerged in the sand at Punta del Este beach resort town famous for completion in Uruguay in 1982, a similar version in Madrid (Spain) completed in 1987 and in Venice (Italy ) completed in 1995.

This is a sculpture by Mario Irarrazabal Beach Punta del Este (Uruguay).

Hand in Italy.

Fingers in a park in Spain.

But compared with other sculptures of his hands, perhaps in the Atacama desert country has a very specific definition, carry more mysterious nature. This may be due barren landscape of desert whose work is located there.

Most works of sculpture located in the arid desert is the world's most tourist attractions offer. Series still flock here to admire the great period of art the desert full of wisdom hidden deep in this sculpture.