Mario Sculpture “Game Over” based on La Pietá by Michelangelo

Kordian Lewandowski turns blends religious Renaissance art and geek culture with his polystyrene foam block carving titled Game Over, based on the famous La Pietá by Michelangelo.

Carved by a 24-year-old Michelangelo, La Pietá shows Mary cradling Jesus in her lap after he has been crucified. The statue was vandalized in the early 1970s when an Australian geologist took a hammer to the sculpture. The work resides in St. Peter’s Basilica behind bullet proof (and hammer proof) glass.

Lewandowski created Game Over as part of his thesis devoted to electronic games. He carved his sculpture from polystyrene foam starting with a chainsaw (here we go!) and working his way up to more precise tools as he progressed.

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