La storia della Terra is a sculpture at Marievik and Liljeholmskajen in Stockholm, created by the artist pair Anna-Maria Kubach-Wilmsen and Wolfgang Kubach. It was constructed in September 2001. The sculpture consists of a bookshelf with five books in various stones from five continents.
The freestanding book is made of light blue stone from Brasilien. The top book in the bookshelf is a book in light grey stone from Indien. Under that is a book in yellow stone from Vietnam, a book in black stone from a country in Afrika, a red book in bohusgranit from Sverige, and a book in grey stone from Australien.
The entire sculpture weighs twelve tons. Variants of the sculpture in smaller scale exist outside Trump Tower in New York, USA, and outside Bibliothèque municipale in Lyon. A variant from 2013 with dimensions 200 x 160 x 110 centimeters was also exhibited at Riedberg Campus on Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main in 2015.
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Written by Nik Frost
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