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Project Name | Stone heroes | Posted in | Photorealism | Artist | Léo Caillard |
![Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard. Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f1_leo_caillard_stone_heroes_series_yatzer.jpg)
Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.
By seamlessly merging the contemporary and the historical in such an unexpected, playful fashion, while Caillard’s images raise questions about pop culture’s mythological status and art’s place in modern society, more importantly, they demand the viewers’ attention, by jolting them out of their visual stupefaction and asking them to critically consider what they are looking at and by extension reexamine their cultural and social environment.
This is not the first Louvre-based project for Caillard whose previous work include “Hipster in Stone”, where classical sculptures were digitally dressed in the latest hip fashion, “Hipster in Bronze” which featured a series of classical busts trendily accessorized, and “Art Game” whereby paintings in the museum were shown displaying navigation elements from iTunes, iOS and Mac OS X. Similarly to "Heroes of Stone”, these images "may not be real, but", as Caillard eloquently says, "they are true"; at least they could be one day.
![Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard. Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f2_leo_caillard_stone_heroes_series_yatzer.jpg)
Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.
![Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard. Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f3_leo_caillard_stone_heroes_series_yatzer.jpg)
Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.
![Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard. Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.](https://www.yatzer.com/sites/default/files/media/slideshow/f4_leo_caillard_stone_heroes_series_yatzer.jpg)
Léo Caillard, Stone Heroes series © Léo Caillard.