A few punching bags just sold at an auction for nearly 100k.
For $95,000 you’d probably expect these bags to be covered in blood and blisters from Muhammad Ali himself, but artist Alexandre Arrechea managed to create some blown glass punching bags that sold in auction for almost a hundred thousand dollars. The most surprising part is that somebody made something out of blown glass that’s not meant for smoking weed.
These glass punching bags have sand inside of them, that the artist took from various places they’ve visited in their life. Because art. Here’s what the artist himself had to say about this installment:
“I made eight punching bag pieces for my exhibition at Magnan Metz Gallery in 2005. They all related to places I was connected to emotionally: my home in Havana, the gallery building of Art in General in Soho and my studio in Los Angeles. Since I was a kid, I collected dust and debris; I thought that by keeping it, I would always be able to retain the memory of those places. These pieces represent my permanent fight [hence the punching bags] with memory which eludes me so often. Memory is something fragile. On the side of the punching bags, you can see an engraved label with the addresses where the dust [at the bottom] was collected. Should a bottle break, my memories of the place will perhaps be reduced to dust. Of course, you can also see a reference to Man Ray’s famous Dust Breeding, from 1920.”
Alexandre Arrechea, via Instagram
If you’re looking for the perfect gift for a fighter with a glass jaw, it’s definitely a glass punching bag.
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