Bricking it: is Lego art?

Nathan Sawayas Lego statues are interesting, but the people calling them art are missing the point. Lego doesnt need to be art

Lego sculptures: the Art of the Brick exhibition in pictures

Can you make art from Lego? There seems to be widespread media agreement that you can. Nathan Sawaya has an exhibition of ambitious Lego models at Old Truman Brewery in London. Reports uncritically call it art, made by an artist. Is that so?

Certainly these Lego statues aspire to the kinds of existential anguish you might see in serious art. Theres a figure pulling open its own chest to reveal bricks pouring out from within and another holding up a Lego mask as if meditating on the enigma of identity.

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