This artwork can only be properly viewed from high up in the sky – and will disappear on its own: a huge biodegradable land art painting by French-Swiss artist Saype is located near the summit of Grand Chamossaire above the Alpine town of Villars-sur-See Ollon in Switzerland. It shows a girl stacking books and stones.
The gigantic artwork entitled “Vers l’equilibre” (Towards Balance) stretches over some 2,500 square meters. The 33-year-old artist created the image with a 3D effect, which makes it look like a giant girl is sitting from a small plane or photos taken with a drone. He says he uses 100 percent biodegradable paint based on charcoal and chalk.
Saype, whose real name is Guillaume Legros, is one of the pioneers of grass painting. In 2016, on a mountainside in the Swiss municipality of Leysin in the canton of Vaud, he sprayed a 10,000 square meter piece of graffiti depicting a resting shepherd.
According to its own statements, it was the largest biodegradable painting in the world. “We have managed to leave something in people’s minds, even though there is nothing to see on the ground,” he told arte TV channel. Because at some point Saype’s paintings will merge with nature again.
In 2019, Saype created a work of art made of interlocking hands on the Field of Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris – 600 meters long, 25 meters wide, on 15,000 square meters of grass. “In a polarized world, I wanted to create an optimistic message for all of us: the largest human necklace ever made,” he wrote on his Facebook page at the time.
Born in 1989, Saype already caused a stir in the Tour de France with his enormous, almost photographic landscape images.
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