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Today I bring you a little more of the wonderful contemporary art from the hand of Nathan Sawaya, who makes sculptures with the pieces for weapon LEGO company, sure when you played with these pieces or maybe you have given your children these incredible didactic pieces that develop the gross motor in children. Come with me to learn about the life and work of this innovative artist.

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Nathan Sawaya is an artist from New York who in his free time began to make small sculptures and soon after was involved in the exhibition is in several museums in the United States,
Contemporary art has broken the thread that dragged the traditional art where certain materials were used and there were certain schemes to consider a work as genuine art, the reality is that the themes and inspirations are diverse and Nathan Sawaya, focused on a material never used before to make art, those plastic figures of children converted into true sculptures that approach reality.

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The development of his work has earned him the recognition of the company that created this game with the LEGO professional certificate and allowed him to work with the company for a while, for the lego Martes model builder scholarship.

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He is always surrounded by hundreds of thousands of pieces of various colors, the same ones sold in stores, there are no pieces made especially for the works, they are common and common pieces.

It took 7 long years to give his first exhibition in 2007, which is entitled "The Art of The Brick" itinerant character, has been in several exhibition halls in different parts of the world, surprising viewers.
Not only is he dedicated to making these exhibitions, but he is also linked to the commercial side, being hired on numerous occasions to make works for social events, private collectors and one or another convention.

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The montage consists of portraying common images, but in a minimalist atmosphere. And the challenge is challenging because due to some adjustments in programs of an edition of images the cubes of the layman are managed to disappear leaving a difficult work to appreciate for the observer that has to manage to identify which pieces are a layman and that is photography. Interesting, isn't it?

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It attracts the child we all carry inside while illuminating complex and sophisticated concepts.
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He has represented in pieces, the replica of the Mona Lisa of Da Vinci, the young woman of the pearl of Vermeer, the skeleton of the fearsome tyrannosaurus rex, the Sphinx of Guiza as well as other representations of men, women, and animals that show different poses, as evoking thoughts and attitudes.

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His pieces have been exhibited in different cities around the world such as Rio de Janeiro, Taiwan, Moscow, Rome, all these sites have been part of seeing what an artist can do with the pieces of LEGO, not all are equal, for this the artist is dedicated to making the pieces for each of the exhibitions, where he has achieved with his effort and dedication to bring to the top the category of a simple game to a world-class contemporary art.

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