08/16/2016 - Last year, Dutch artist Peter Smith started an initiative to 3D print a 12-meter Plastic Madonna statue and display it on the beach in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympic Games. Thanks to Brazilian artist Eric Fuly, Smith’s idea has come to fruition; the statue appeared on the Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro during the recent World Oceans Day. At the same time, Smith unveiled a smaller 3D printed version of the Plastic Madonna at the Fab City campus in Amsterdam. The statue is made up of recycled PET bottles, and depicts a mother breastfeeding her child, and symbolizes the unintentional poisoning of her baby with plastic molecules. Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/146007/update-plastic-madonna-rio/

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