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Fight For Freedom: Commemorating Mandela

Tuesday 09.18.2012 , Posted by

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s capture by the apartheid police, artist Marco Cianfanelli designed a beautiful sculpture. The installation, which gorgeously displays Mandela’s profile, resides 90km South of Durban, surrounded by a midlands landscape of South Africa, and is made up of 50 anchored steel columns each between 6.5 and 9 meters high. The columns symbolize the prison bars that incarcerated Mandela for 27 years of his life sentence before he went on to become the president of South Africa.
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