MOSCOW, January 11 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti) – When Piero Manzoni canned his feces and put it up for sale as artwork in 1961, he was driven by his loathing of “capitalist pigs.” But when Mikhail Bopposov, born the same year, created a giant cobra out of frozen cow dung, he did it for the children.
“I made it so the kids could play around and have some fun,” the native of the Siberian republic of Yakutia told RIA Novosti by phone Friday, speaking about his 400-kilogram creation.
The snake – coiled, with head upright and hood widened – is on display in the village of Yolba, about 300 kilometers east of the republic’s capital, Yakutsk.
The installation was created to mark the coming of the Year of the Snake, which begins February 10 according to the Chinese calendar, Bopposov said.