Competition for Van Gogh Lookalike Surfaces Living Doppelgänger
- November 27, 2016 16:51
An artist put out a call for a Vincent Van Gogh lookalike to pose for a sculpture commission. Some 1,250 entries from 37 countries pored in and 500,000 votes cast, ultimately selecting a red-headed Englishman named Daniel Baker. An actor, Baker seems to be the spitting image of the famed post-Impressionist painter.
Baker wins €5,000 (£4,180), and his head was 3D scanned for a 2 x 3 meter bronze bust to go on view at a Canadian winery.
Writer and artist Douglas Coupland, based in Vancouver, Canada, spearheaded the project. He writes on IamVincent.com:
For a large bronze sculpture commission, I crowd-sourced the planet looking for Vincent van Gogh's closest lookalike—and I found him in Christchurch, England.
We flew him to Vancouver to be 3D-scanned, and his facial data is being used as the source material to create the final sculpture of Vincent Van Gogh, forever immortalizing him in bronze.
This sculpture was commissioned by Anthony von Mandl, who will install "Vincent" at his radical new Martin's Lane Winery in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley.
