Love is a wonderful and amazing feeling, sung in numerous literary works like poems, stories, and novels. But this theme is captured not only in literary creations. Love has also been inspiring the creation of various sculptural, architectural, and other monuments located in different parts of the Earth throughout centuries.
This is the list of the most interesting statues of love! They show how skillfully a person can embody a deep sensual massage in a variety of installations.
- “Love,” Batumi, Georgia
At the entrance to the wonderful resort city of Batumi, you will see a huge seven-meter statue of love. It is called “Love,” and two bodies personify it – male and female. Tamar Kvesitadze was inspired by the novel “Ali and Nino” to create the statue of the sculptor. As much as 10 minutes, the bodies move towards each other, kiss, and merge together. It is made from metal, and the sculpture has been designed in the form of horizontal lines that are set one after another as the two people meet. Maybe this is a symbol which means that during life, a couple can drift apart or get closer; this process is cyclic, and it is what love is all about – who knows.
- Love Island Park, Jeju Island, South Korea
The imagination of Asian peoples is surprising. But you have never seen such a theme park as on Jeju Island in South Korea! “Island of Love” is a huge square, strewn with erotic sculptures. Well, we would recommend refraining from visiting the park with your parents or children. Better to go there on a honeymoon or in the company of friends! Or in solitude, if you want to meet single women. Not only you will enjoy these provocative sculptures without going red, but you may also run into someone you can share your thoughts with. But do not worry criticizing the art object; maybe your companion really likes the idea!
- Monument to Eternal Love, Kyiv, Ukraine
In Kyiv, in the Mariinsky Park near the park bridge (it is also called the bridge of lovers), there is a monument, a symbol of eternal love and devotion. It is dedicated to the meeting of former prisoners of war camp for Ukrainian prisoners Mokrina Yurzuk and Italian Luigi Peduto after 60 years of separation, and represents the culmination of the meeting in the program “Wait for me.” The opening ceremony was attended by 91-year-old Luigi Peduto, unfortunately, the 93-year-old Mokrina Yurzuk was unable to arrive in Kyiv. This object devoted to eternal love shows that this feeling has no age, nationality, or time period. It can fight through all obstacles and be saved even in hardships.
- EVOL, Spinola Bay, San Julian, Malta
The inverted word “Love” at Spinola Bay in Malta evokes the same diametrically opposite feelings. Many do not understand this kind of art and believe that this statue of love is a failure. But it is worth looking into the reflection of water – and you will see the treasured word “Love” in it. The same is with our feelings – we may not always recognize them, but as soon as you realize that you have fallen in love, you get to know the meaning of life, and everything becomes so clear to you.
- LOVE, statues around the world
The whole world is familiar with this work of art! But few people know that four red letters in a similar interpretation were invented by the American artist Robert Indiana in 1964. Initially, the image was designed as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art. But the public loved it so much that in 1970, it was put on display. Soon, the statue was duplicated in different colors, and it is now exhibited around the world.
It was also then updated and translated into various languages. You can find more than 50 such sculptures apart from the initial ones. Because language and the way you pronounce the word doesn’t matter, as the concept is the same. Love is a sweet feeling familiar to everyone, place, form, and national culture play minor roles because the design stays one and only. Red color, one letter is inclined, and all of them stick together – the symbols of romantic red hues, the confusing we experience from a hurricane of feelings and the way lovers want to constantly be closer and together.
- Love, Reykjavik, Iceland
A tender statue of love is located in a small park near the Reykjavik National Gallery. In this city, there are many monuments of this kind, but this one stands out for its special sweetness and roundness of forms. Locals adore the statue of love and believe that such art has a positive effect on their children. It can quite immense and made of metal; it depicts the two people gently hugging and looking into each other’s eye. As if the moment has stopped still for them, they do not notice the world around. It is only the two of them and their feelings that exist and have meaning.
