Niclas Castello?s $11.7M Golden Cube Unveiled In Central Park
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Image: Sandra Mika
For one day only on Wednesday (2 February ), German artist Niclas Castello?s “The Castello CUBE” was placed in Central Park, New York.
The 24-karat, 999.9 pure gold cube wheeled out in the park is estimated to be worth around US$11.7 million. According to the artist’s team, the cube is not for sale.
Prior to the official day, Castello teased the public with the exact coordinates of the location on black trucks that drove around Times Square.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Niclas Castello (@niclas.castello)
Measuring over a foot and a half on all sides, “The Castello CUBE” is hollow with a wall thickness of a quarter inch. It was cast at Art Foundry H. Rüetschi in Switzerland with a special handmade kiln due to its size and volume. Extreme temperatures of up to 1100 degrees Celsius were required to melt the gold.
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Certainly attention-grabbing and hard to miss, the 410-pound work was guarded heavily with a security unit. According to Artnet News, Castello said the idea was to ?create something that is beyond our world ? that is intangible?, and referred to it as a conceptual piece in all its facet...
The post Niclas Castello?s $11.7M Golden Cube Unveiled In Central Park appeared first on LUXUO.
Image: Sandra Mika
For one day only on Wednesday (2 February ), German artist Niclas Castello?s “The Castello CUBE” was placed in Central Park, New York.
The 24-karat, 999.9 pure gold cube wheeled out in the park is estimated to be worth around US$11.7 million. According to the artist’s team, the cube is not for sale.
Prior to the official day, Castello teased the public with the exact coordinates of the location on black trucks that drove around Times Square.
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Niclas Castello (@niclas.castello)
Measuring over a foot and a half on all sides, “The Castello CUBE” is hollow with a wall thickness of a quarter inch. It was cast at Art Foundry H. Rüetschi in Switzerland with a special handmade kiln due to its size and volume. Extreme temperatures of up to 1100 degrees Celsius were required to melt the gold.
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Certainly attention-grabbing and hard to miss, the 410-pound work was guarded heavily with a security unit. According to Artnet News, Castello said the idea was to ?create something that is beyond our world ? that is intangible?, and referred to it as a conceptual piece in all its facet...
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