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Pure Gold Cube Worth £8.6 Million Unveiled In New York's Central Park

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Published 19:40 3 Feb 2022 GMT

Pure Gold Cube Worth £8.6 Million Unveiled In New York's Central Park

It weighs in at 410 pounds, which explains why the overall valuation is so huge

Tom Wood

Tom Wood

If you were in the vicinity of New York City yesterday, perhaps you were lucky enough to be into Central Park to see something pretty unusual

You can’t miss it, because it’s a huge cube made out of pure gold that is surrounded by a large security detail.

Of course, because it’s made out of one of the most expensive metals going and worth around $11.7 million (£8.6 million) they’re not about to let people waltz up to it and potentially walk off with it.

Niclas Castello and his cube.
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The bizarre artwork - called simply Golden Cube - was created by German artist Niclas Castello, who had a special kiln built in order to cast his cube of 186 kilograms of pure 24-karat gold.

It wasn’t easy to make, either.

The cube required temperatures of 1,100C in order to make the box of just over a foot and a half, which also has a thickness of around a quarter of an inch.

It was brought out for the first time into the Naumburg Bandshell at around 5:00am yesterday morning, where it was left for the rest of the day.

The work is not for sale – according to the artist’s team – but based upon the current price of gold it would fetch at least $1,788 (£1,314) per ounce.

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It weighs in at 410 pounds, which explains why the overall valuation is so huge.

Castello told Artnet News that the work is ‘a conceptual work of art in all its facets’ and said that his overarching idea behind the whole project was to ‘create something that is beyond our world—that is intangible’.

Because this is the wretched year of our Lord 2022, the artwork is also accompanied by a cryptocurrency, which was launched in conjunction with the cube.

It's certainly shiny.
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It’s called the Castello Coin and will be traded as $CAST.

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You can buy units – is that what they’re even called? – online for $0.44 each.

An auction of NFTs will also take place on February 21.

Still, you won’t be able to buy a giant gold cube, will you?

At least that will retain some of the worth it has now in future years.

Gallerist Lisa Kandlhofer told the art publication that ‘the cube can be seen as a sort of communiqué between an emerging 21st-century cultural ecosystem based on crypto and the ancient world where gold reigned supreme'.

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The cube was also unveiled at a private dinner on Wall Street – the US financial centre – yesterday evening.

Featured Image Credit: Alamy

Topics: US News, World News, Weird, Art

Tom Wood
Tom Wood

Tom Wood is a LADbible journalist and Twin Peaks enthusiast. Despite having a career in football cut short by a chronic lack of talent, he managed to obtain degrees from both the University of London and Salford. According to his French teacher, at the weekend he mostly likes to play football and go to the park with his brother. Contact Tom on [email protected]

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