Close to the gigantic "statue" Nimis there is another art piece by the same artist, Lars Vilks. He made it in 1991 and named it Arx (latin for fortress). It looks like a melted ruin and you could make the assumption that it is a sculpture. But it's actually a book with is own ISBN-number and all (91-88248-47-X). Instead of pages made from paper, the artist used stones. That's why every stone has a number on.

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This post features 38 pictures on the biggest piece of art I have photographed so far. It is called Nimis (Latin for "too much") and can be found on a beach in Kullaberg nature reserve. It's built out of wood and it's estimated to weight about 70 tons. The history behind this work is long and I'll only give a brief retelling of it here. The construction of it was started in 1980 by the artist Lars Vilks. He didn't bother to obtain any permission from the local government to build it so once they found out about it, they started the legal work to get it removed. But after a lot of legal filibustering by the people that want to preserve the work, they seems to have given up on the idea. The work is still being worked on by various people and parts of the construction has been rebuilt during the years because of damage dealt to it by storms and arsonists. All my pictures were shoot on the same summer day this year.

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