Monday, July 11, 2016

Frank Zappa

Monument to Frank Zappa by Konstantinas Bogdanas, Kalinausko gatvę, Užupis, Vilnius, Lithuania

Monument to Frank Zappa by Konstantinas Bogdanas, 1996
Kalinausko gatvę, Užupis
Vilnius, September 1997

“Saulius Paukstys, a civil servant and member of the Vilnius bohemian set, saw the opportunity to fulfil a lifelong ambition. He founded the Frank Zappa Fan Club and commissioned a socialist realist sculptor to create a statue of Zappa on a patch of land in front of a children's hospital in the centre of the city.” (They tore down Lenin's statue - and raised one to Frank Zappa, The Guardian)

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