Valencian duo PichiAvo spent a whole year designing the mesmerising 85-foot-tall sculpture, only to have it set alight last month at Fallas de València. Their graffitied, neoclassical sculpture was torched during the peak of the festival along with 400 others throughout the Spanish city; an exhilarating tradition to commemorate Saint Joseph and mark the start of spring.
The artists collaborated with Valencian Falles artisans Latorre y Sanz to build the gargantuan figurine: as one might imagine, it took some pretty serious engineering and carpentry to construct such a huge scale statue!
Fallas de València dates back thousands of years; what started out as carpenters merely burning old materials has snowballed into a blazing five-day street party. PichiAvo’s fellow artist friend Okuda San Miguel created last year’s equally brilliant “Falla Mayor.” The commitment and passion involved in the creation of these giant works of art is just astonishing.
