'Sweet Brown Snail' in Munich, Germany

Street art often has a meaning tied to its look and location, perhaps the best example of this is a gigantic sculpture of a snail, looking longingly at a Munich museum filled with cars and other vehicles.  The sculpture called ‘Sweet Brown Snail’ is a 29 fold enlargement of a popular tourist trinket, now towering at four meters high. The statue was made as a collaboration between Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, known for works such as Paul McCarthy’s Santa Claus. The statue was placed on the square in 2002, right…

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