Hello Wood is a weeklong art camp in Hungary where 200 young people, led by various architects and designers, come together and create projects for eight different Hungarian communities. The students, with the help of their mentors, come up with ideas based on the socio-economic concerns of these specific regions. The eight projects are then presented to the communities during a party at the week’s end.
One of the projects that really stood out was the Tiger. It was designed and built by Gábor Miklós Szőke with the help of his fellow team members: Ádám Farkas, Eszter Móricz, Tamás Nádasdy, Krisztina Sárkány, and Zoltán Török. The sculpture was part of the Wood Workshop and was created for the Szakácsi community.
The artist’s intent was for the Tiger to “protect” the people of the community and for it to “stand for power: the power of togetherness, self-advocacy and taking up the challenge.”
Be sure to check out the rest of the projects here.
Patrick on 10.06.2012 at 20:40 PM
I can’t help but think this has a underlying pun to Tiger Woods, still this piece is really great!
Uday CHudasama on 10.07.2012 at 09:27 AM
Its just mind blowing. Kudos to the artist
Nu paradox on 10.07.2012 at 09:40 AM
Though I understand the sculpture is a part of the Wood Workshop, the choice of material for the sculpture is questionable; quite ironic even, well in my eyes at least. The tiger population is dwindling; reasons -systematic destruction of their habitat coupled with poaching- it’s a double-edge sword and time is running out.
To revive its population we need to protect the forests. Imho, to put a stop on deforestation(lumbering) would be a good start. In the future, if we want to see tigers in the wild we need to take a collective stance now, we ought to protect them and their habitat; if not, we would only have tamed, caged tigers to gawk at at the zoo!
khan on 10.08.2012 at 09:28 AM
That`s awesome this called art great work such comeptetion is very help full for upward new talent and the lion which is made is really a art