What went through the minds of the creators of these bizarre statues?

The strangest statues in the world?

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Artists are accustomed to surprising and astonishing us, and some dare to go beyond the limits of convention to provoke. But most of the time, sculptors and artists remain original to create creative statues, while others rely on gigantism to impress with monumental statues.

Often, if not always, artists are inspired by a subject, a legend or a fairy tale, but in this case, we have to confess that we don’t know what went through the minds of the creators of these truly bizarre statues. Extraordinarily strange, some of them, we even wonder if they still exist…

You’ll see that art reaches new heights when it comes to the absurd, or genius, we’re not sure:

Vomiting fountain, South Bank, London, England

A sculpture depicts lava-clad men vomiting water from the fountain.

A statue in Marikina, Philippines

This doctor, it seems, is collecting fecal waste from a sick child.

A giant Caganer in Barcelona, Spain

The caganer is a santon found in Catalonia.

Naked woman riding a rooster holding a huge fork, Cuba

Does this make sense to you?

A centipede duck in Brussels, Belgium

FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic

Vigeland Sculptures Park, Oslo, Norway

Ogre (« child-eater ») fountain, Grain Hall Square, Bern, Switzerland

« Santa Claus », dwarf presenting a small tree in an abstract form reminiscent of an anal plug, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Half-girl, half-fish, Washington, USA

Scary statue pees in Helsinki, Finland

In front of the Franz Kafka Museum in Prague

Strange rainbow in Kiev, Ukraine

In Fengdu, China

Milk is really good, Reykjavík, Iceland

Kate Moss does yoga, a gold statue bought for $1m, somewhere in Asia

Spider-man erect in Busan, South Korea

Burnside Fountain or « Turtle Boy », Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

A man dancing with a fish, Chicago, USA

Hovering baby, Singapore

Verity, a bizarre statue in Ilfracombe, England

Breastfeeding woman in Nuremberg, Germany

« Kanchô », Japan

Kanchô is a prank often played in Japan; it’s performed by joining hands palm to palm, closing all fingers except the pointed index fingers tightly together, trying to insert them into a victim’s anal region when they’re not looking… Very funny.

Superman’s miscalculation, Berlin, Germany

« Spiderchameau », Abu Dhabi

Poor Alligator, New York

Ronald Macdonald’s decapitated, Venice, Italy

Children playing on an alligator, Mountain View, California

A crab-woman in Singapore

Which of these statues do you find the strangest?

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