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CNN reports about the Hungarian giant falcon statue in Atlanta
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Gábor Miklós Szőke holds the world record of the biggest statue about a bird. It has almost failed to be made.
As Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu writes, Atlanta Falcons hired a Hungarian artist, Gábor Miklós Szőke to create a statue of the team’s mascot. It is not a new phenomenon in the sculptor’s life that he is asked to build a statue about a sports team’s pet bird of prey: he is also the creator of the giant eagle in front of Fradi’s stadium in Budapest.
The Fradi statue is also a quite large piece of art: it has a wingspan of 12 meters, it is 8 meters tall and weighs about 15 tons. That is the statue that brought Szőke fame and success in the first place, and it was the reason why the NFL team decided to hire him for the job.
He does not design only birds, but also other sorts of animals, such as his horse statue in Slovakia (which is the largest one in Europe) or the “puli” dog (a typical Hungarian shepherd dog with shaggy fur) in Washington.
