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Larger than Life: The quirky street sculptures of David Mesguich

Combining geometric design with sculpture, and giving it a slightly offbeat, street-art twist, French artist David Mesguich has been creating work that's turning heads across Europe.

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A large geometric sculpture of a child reaching up to draw a sun, made of white and copper-coloured faceted panels, stands in a public plaza with green buses and street lights in the background

His most recent project is a 10m-high sculpture of a little girl drawing a sun in the sky. It was commissioned by Gallery 208 for a public space in the Polish city of Poznan and was inspired by, and named after, his own four-year-old daughter, Lucie.

It took Mesguich five months to draw and fabricate the five-tonne sculpture. Exsud, a furniture design studio based in Poland, helped with the construction and installation.

Other recent projects by Mesguich include Stateless, two massive blue-and-white sculptures of refugees made of recycled plastic abandoned in Paris suburbs, and Egoism 1.0, another installation made of recycled elements that first appeared at La Lune en Parachute art centre and was then "forsaken in a train yard somewhere in the north of France".

Silhouetted figure of a girl holding up a geometric sun sculpture against an illuminated modern building at night in Poznan
Giant geometric sculpture of a child holding up a sun, part of David Mesguich's 10-metre-high public installation in Poznan, Poland
Workers on a lift install a geometric metal head sculpture of a child looking upward, part of David Mesguich's public art installation in Poznan, Poland
Large geometric sculpture of a child's face in blue and white, lying on grass in front of a colourful striped wall and residential buildings
Large geometric sculpture of a girl's face in shades of blue and yellow on a grass field beside residential buildings and steps
Person standing before a large white geometric sculpture of a girl's head mounted on a blue and white fence, with brick buildings behind
A child stands looking up at a large geometric sculpture of a girl's head mounted on a blue-gated building, part of David Mesguich's public art installation in Poznan
A person crouches beside a large white geometric skull sculpture made of angular faceted sections in an overgrown outdoor space
Large geometric skull sculpture made of white panels sits abandoned in a railway yard beside a pile of wood debris
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