Here is Michelangelo’s “The Hand of God”, made out of 12,090 Rubik’s Cubes — a World Record for both Rubik’s Cubes and the amount of patience used by an artist without actually murdering somebody.
It took 11 artists to put this masterpiece together, and only 3 people (including God himself) to throw these very same Rubik’s Cubes out of the window after hours of frustration. And you guys, Cube Works Studio, the group behind this work of art, are not finished yet. They want to make the entire Sistine Chapel in Rubik’s Cubes! That’s going to put make one Hungarian Rube-Cube manufacturer “nagyon boldog” (very happy).
Awesome close-up photo ahead…
Here’s more information for those interested via Splash:
The colourful piece featuring the Italian artist’s work from the Sistine Chapel took more than 400 hours to make by a dedicated team of 11 puzzle fans. Incredibly, the team had to individually adjust each Rubik’s cube by hand to give it the exact colours required to recreate the masterpiece. Cube Works Studio, who are behind the creation, spent half the time making blueprints with a computer by pixelizing the image with the six colours on a Rubik’s Cube. The remaining time was spent twisting the cubes. Creative director Josh Chalom said the work is the beginning of an attempt to reproduce the entire ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a project that will be hung from a roof and weigh 50 tonnes and use 250,000 cubes. He said: “I had the idea in my head and knew it needed a team to pull it off so we set up the Cube Works Studio, based in Toronto, Canada”.
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