The piñata you pick up for a child's birthday party will be bright and colorful, but made as cheaply as possible because its purpose is to be destroyed. It's a fun game in which everyone gets a prize, but who ever thought of the piñata as an art medium?
Roberto Benavidez, that's who. He switched from metal casting to making piñatas, a wide swing to the more accessible paper-based sculpture. Benavidez' most notable series of piñatas is based on the works of Hieronymus Bosch, titled Piñatas of Earthly Delights. The fantastical creatures he sculpts from the details of Bosch's classic paintings range from adorable to puzzling to creepy, and illustrate the themes of religion and sin. Each feather or scale is hand-crafted. No one would dream of whacking these piñatas!
The Hieronymus Bosch figures are but a small portion of Benavidez's art piñatas. Check out more at his website or at Instagram. -via Boing Boing