Featuring Kobe in his iconic Lakers number. Dan Medina, artist of the statue, is looking for a permanent home. On January 26, 2022, on the 2nd anniversary of Kobe and Gigis deaths, a statue of Kobe and Gigi was unveiled at Calabasas, California where the helicopter had crashed. It also includes Bryant’s famous quote, “Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.” This is a print of my original artwork drawn as a tribute to the amazing Kobe Bryant and his talented daughter Gigi. The bodies of Kobe Bryant and three others were identified through fingerprints on January 28, and the. On the statute’s steel pedestal are engraved the names of all nine victims in the early morning crash which occurred on Jan 26, 2020. “On this day, the second anniversary of the accident, I decided to bring it up from sunrise to sunset and create a bit of a healing process for fans.” Gianna Bryant, the 13-year-old daughter of Vanessa and Kobe Bryant, died in a helicopter crash Sunday in Calabasas, California, that also killed her father.

As Bossip reports, The Los Angeles Lakers team is looking to honor Bryant on Aug. He said, “This is all on my own, no one asked me to do it.” Rumor has it that the Los Angeles Lakers are making final arrangements for a Kobe Bryant memorial statue that’s set to make its debut next summer. “The flowers, the jerseys, the hats blow away, and I think we need something more permanent.” “You come up here, and it is kind of emotional,” he said. Medina also told Winton that he envisions the memorial remaining there temporarily. Medina was at the death site to greet fans who had made the 2.1km hike to pay their respects to the sports legend. The sculptor had transported the 150-pound statue to its current home by himself.

The 37-year-old artist gathered dozens of spray cans and headed to Studio City. If a site in downtown LA is finalized, the process of installing it along with the base could be done within six months.The bronze statue created by Dan Medina depicts Kobe and Gigi wearing basketball uniforms, staring at each other lovingly as Gigi holds her dad’s hand as it rests on her shoulder. After Art Gozukuchikyan heard that Kobe Bryant had died in the hills above Los Angeles, he transformed into Artoon. Medina said the life-size sculpture is about 90% completed. This painting is known worldwide and loved. “I hope by showing that something we did spontaneous and the right way can lead to something further.” 1/5 Los Angeles sculptor Dan Medina has honored the anniversary of the deaths of Kobe and Gigi Bryant along with seven other passengers by placing a temporary statue of the two where their. I put countless hours of my time to make this painting for the people Kobe n Gigi inspired and impacted their lives. There was no trash left behind,” he said. The mural is on the outer wall of Hardcore. Medina also said he hopes the smaller version could eventually end up at the crash site. A landmark mural depicting Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna Bryant in downtown L.A. Two years after NBA great Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gigi died in a helicopter crash with seven others in Los Angeles, a statue has been placed at the site for fans to pay their respects. The statue is a smaller version of a life-size sculpture he is working on that he hopes can find a location in downtown Los Angeles. The base has the inscription “heroes come and go but legends are forever,' along with the names of the other crash victims - Christina Mauser Payton and Sarah Chester John, Keri and Alyssa Altobelli and pilot Ara Zobayan.įans took photos of the statue along with leaving flowers and other memorials at the crash site. Most of the murals are from Los Angeles itself, where Bryant spent his entire legendary career, but a lot of them went up elsewhere: the Philippines, Italy, Taiwan, Australia, India, Spain. The statue depicts Bryant in his Los Angeles Lakers uniform with his arm around Gigi, also in her basketball uniform and holding a ball.

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