Пробуждение гиганта: скульптуры в США и Италии

Statue in Prince George's County, Maryland, US

The Awakening (1980) is a 72 feet (22 m) statue by J. Seward Johnson, Jr. that depicts a giant embedded in the earth, struggling to free himself. It is located at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, just outside Washington, D. C.

The statue consists of five separate aluminum pieces buried in the ground, giving the impression of a distressed giant attempting to free himself from the ground. The left hand and right foot barely protrude, while the bent left leg and knee jut into the air. The 17 feet (5 m) high right arm and hand reach farther out of the ground. The bearded face, with the mouth in mid scream, struggles to emerge from the earth.

Seward Johnson created a copy of The Awakening, which was unveiled in Chesterfield, Missouri on October 10, 2009. The sculpture is located adjacent to Chesterfield Central Park, near the intersection of Chesterfield Parkway and Park Circle Drive to the west of Chesterfield Mall. The installation of the sculpture in Chesterfield was commissioned by Chesterfield Arts, which is a non profit arts organization supporting public art and the visual, performing and literary arts in Chesterfield and the West County. $1 million in funding was provided by Sachs Properties.

A fiberglass copy of The Awakening, also made by Seward Johnson, has been exhibited in at least three places in Italy, where it is called Il Risveglio. It was installed there first in April 2009 on Piazza Duomo (Cathedral Square) on the island of Ortygia, the historic, old part of Syracuse, Sicily at the time of some G8 meetings in Italy. In December of that year, it was moved to the EUR district of Rome, in connection with a commemoration of twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was installed next to an obelisk in the Piazza Guglielmo Marconi. Finally, in May of 2011, it was installed in Viterbo in the Valle di Faul Park.