The Unknown Official [Removed at artist request]

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Author name
St.Pall (Páll Heimir Pálsson)
Source
Sketchfab
Polygon Count
12
Release Date
2013-05-31
License
Standard
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Asset Overview

The sculpture „The Unknown Official“ (1993) by the Icelandic artist Magnus Tomasson (b.1943) is located in front of one of the entrances to Reykjavik City Hall in Reykjavik‘s centrum. The sculpture is a popular favourite, as it manages to be both humorous and provocative, while truthfully depicting something that most everyone can relate to, the trivial existence of the working bee. The block of rock is a perfect metaphor for how everyday life crushes down on us, while at the same time depicting the narrative of the faceless official who is only a cog in the wheel, and never a person to most of us.