Some crawl on it, others sit in its hand: a gigantic gorilla sculpture attracts everyone’s attention in New York. It was set up by an artist couple. With the work entitled “King Nyani”, the British-Australian artist duo known as “Gillie and Marc” wants to promote the protection of this endangered species.
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In a park in western Manhattan, the sculpture, which shows a lying gorilla, immediately became a popular photo opportunity. Children and adults mainly posed in the animal’s right hand, which it holds in front of its body.
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This is not the first time that the artist couple has drawn attention to species protection. A few years ago the duo had already commemorated the fate of the last few specimens of the northern white rhinoceros with a rhinoceros sculpture on a New York square.
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