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The mind-bending sculptures of Alan Gibbs’ farm (27 HQ Photos)

July 17, 2012 | In: Art, Design, High-Res, Mind Blowing

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: Located on New Zealand’s North Island (about 60 km north of Auckland) lies a 1,000 acre (4 sq km) property owned by one of New Zealand’s wealthiest businessmen, Alan Gibbs. The area is the site of Alan’s private art park known as Gibbs Farm. Open to the public by appointment, the sculpture park features an incredible variety of massive sculptures by some of the world’s most famous artists. For more photos of Alan’s farm go to his site Gibbs Farm.

What’s unique about the artwork is that nearly all of it incorporates the land into it intentionally. Almost all of the sculptures in the collection were commissioned new works as opposed to purchased pieces. After nearly twenty years of development, Gibbs Farm now features over 22 artists from around the world.

: Neil Dawson – Horizons

: Andy Goldsworthy – Arches

: Anish Kapoor – Dismemberment

: Eric Orr – Electrum

: George Rickey – Column of Four Squares

: Graham Bennett – Sea/Sky Kaipara

: Leon Van Den Eijkel – Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape

: Kenneth Snelson – Easy K

: Peter Roche – Saddleblaze

: Richard Serra – Te Tuhirangi Contour

: Richard Thompson – Untitled

: Sol LeWitt – Pyramid

Category: Art, Design, High-Res, Mind Blowing

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humperdinkle

Wow, just, wow!
SpacemanSpiff

#25 #27

those sheep dont even appreciate art

Underbaker

I think it is the sheep that make it awesome.
Charlie Murphy

fuck yo' art, n- word!
Dave

-Every jobless art major, ever

jimctu

wow…fantastic!<img src="http://s03.flagcounter.com/mini/FMv/bg_FFFFFF/txt_000000/border_CCCCCC/flags_1";;width="1" height="1"><img src="http://www.maploco.com/vmap/p/3996101.png" width="1" height="1"/><img src="http://rj.revolvermaps.com/h/m/a/0/ff0000/50/0/9do6egcg8eu.png" width="1" height="1"/>
Justin Cider

Wish I had that talent!
B Dub

#2 Very cool….like animating real life.

Katie

That one is definitely my favorite.

Sweet Doogs

Sweet as
bbaama

thats dumb, ruins a beautiful landscape with modern art, damn hipsters

kitra

to be fair, hipsters liked ruining landscapes before it was cool.

AboutGorramTime

#2 Kind of a cool thing to do with oodles and oodles of extra money. I'd probably spend it all on beer, my dogs, and unnecessarily extravagant trips with my friends.
Diggler

#10 Bird zapper?
passwordistaco

#19 What did he do build his own ghost town?
charlie

I have to agree. Most of these are just scrap metal randomly welded together. And what about that shitty fence in the middle of nowhere. get a sting line you no talent bum. Fucking lame… Now let's see some more tits.

kitra

Where's the gallery of your sculptures?

charlie

I don't sculpt.. I grow daffodils, and they're beautiful.

Bill

I agree. Take this garbage back to the city where it belongs and yes, I'm fully aware that it's his private property. Just because you can do somethings, doesn't mean you should.

George

Exactly – just because you can do something, doesnt mean you should – like leaving negative comments on something which some people find fantastic! it's private property, so what do you care.. just go click on another titty gallery you neanderthal's
Kitra

Dont you mean, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should build a whole fucking city on it?

Mike

purotu!!!!
Static

#2 and #3 look shopped to me.

Static

guess i was wrong… http://gibbsfarm.org.nz/images/dawson/dawson_08.j…

another angle.. you can see the steel bars wow.

Real

Yes you opened your fat mouth before checking the facts.

tv_paul

#16 On the next In Search of.. "Rubix Cube of the Gods"
#25 Reminds of the structures in that 70" sci fi movie "Zardoz"
Will

fuck yeah, new zealand pride

kitra

no cliff shown to take sheep to

cels0_o

#2 and #3 are pretty awesome. My favorite ones.

KLJ

It's the same one, from different angles.

Sade

#18 Eyesore :S
I feel like nature's beauty wasn't really enhanced here. =/

Hooka

This piece should be called Jumble of Pipes. I did this piece the last plumbing project I worked on when I dropped everything down the stairs

Mike D

Lamo. Whats wrong looking at the landscape. That shit is retarded. Dont get me wrong art is cool but this shit on the middle of beautiful landscape is way out pf place. Just scrap steel welded together. Big deal
Tesla's uncle

#9 TAKE THAT YOU WINGED SPAWNS OF SATAN!!
Sir mix alot

#10 MWA HAHAHA
jmb

great, now go clean up your art/trash, nature is nice enough.
Hooka

I doodle crap like this all the time. How am I not a famous artist?
Peace!

Here's a man allowing artist to express themselfs on his own land. I'm sure he's not going to put a gold mine there. To all the haters out there kcco
http://www.facebook.com/keesvkekem Kees van Kekem

I think this is amazing!
dragon2777

#2 and #3 are my favorite ones the rest are good but not like those

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