World’s Largest Boxing Gloves Hit for Las Vegas

Latino Heritage month art exhibit presents the large scale, 21st century monuments for the City Of Las Vegas. One of these is a sculptural monument 70 feet tall of two Boxing Gloves, aptly called "The Gloves."

Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) August 14, 2006

Big is what Las Vegas is all about, and boxing. After all Las Vegas is the Boxing Capitol of the world and the city of “Jumbo shrimp.” So, why not a Boxing monument and dedicated to boxing and in of all places Las Vegas. Artist/designer Paul-Felix Montez has created both in his new series of monumental sculptural artworks “The Las Vegas monuments.” In this series his contemporary Pop Icon boxing sculpture “The Gloves,” of two boxing gloves, one cast stainless steel, the other cast bronze, stacked vertically and standing 70 feet tall, will bring a new pop, urbane aesthetic to the city. Las Vegas’ new style setting would finally have in the world of fine arts something accessible, mirroring this city’s new growth. These would also be the world’s most expensive boxing gloves ever, considering their size and that’s pure Vegas, too.

Vegas now lives for "Bling" and upscale style with high end condo’s, designer stores, status shopping and five star dinning now regular fixtures on the “New Vegas strip”. These 21st century art works, coupled with mini interactive museums, that instantly show digital film clips of all past, present and future boxers, their greatest bouts, personal backgrounds, and more, on large plasma screens all at the touch of any viewer’s button. This sculptures along with the others in his series of five Monuments take the history of Las Vegas, and turn it into new urban icons. Drawing from it’s past and present each is a giant monument to a different facet in the city’s life. One monument is made up of four “Dice Sticks,” criss-crossing each other at 70 feet tall, another are two large classic performer’s, 1960’s, microphones poised above a reflection pond. Part Las Vegas history, and definitely new art works, each boldly takes Las Vegas into it’s future and new urbane lifestyle culture.

Mr. Montez studied art and design at the High School of Art & Design and the Cooper Union School of Art & Architecture. He has for over 30 years designed, theater, film sets, and special sculptural props, for films such as: “Batman Forever, Congo, Indian in the Cupboard ( a 35 foot long boy’s sneaker and a six foot high baseball, both in 100 percent detail for this film), Showgirls (Volcanic sets), Men in Black, Cable Guy, Armaggedon (An Angry Meteor), and many others”. He has also designed for theme parks (Disney and Universal), theme retail stores (Warner Bros, and Universal), and Casinos throughout Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the world.

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