Lego Museum Challenge @ Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen

Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen organized an online Lego contest. Participants were asked to recreate one of their favorite artworks from the museum collection in Lego. Ivo Kersten from Studio Yves built the Machine no 7 from Tajiri and won first prize. We want to congratulate Studio Yves on winning first prize!

Video and Lego sculpture by: www.studio-yves.com or follow @studioyves.design

In 1967 and 1968 Tajiri made a series of sculptures entitled Machines as a form of protest against the violence of the Vietnam War. Machine No 7 1967–8 is a steel, aluminium, Plexiglas and chromed iron sculpture shaped like a hybrid of a fighter plane and a gun, embodying Tajiri’s experiences of the violence of war.