Rubik cube Mona Lisa set to be auctioned

A street art Rubik’s Cube version of the “Mona Lisa” made from 330 Rubik’s Cubes by the French artist Invader is expected to sell for €150,000 in an auction in Paris scheduled for March.

The French artist is famous for his ceramic Space Invaders figures inspired by the vintage pixelated video game.

Euronews reports that it is the first of a series of works in which the artist has recreated some of the great paintings of art history in Rubik’s Cubes.

Invader, whose real name is Franck Slama, claimed that they are the founding creations of a new art movement called “Rubikcubism”.

The cube, a cult children’s puzzle in the 1980s, was invented by the Hungarian sculptor Emo Rubik as a teaching tool to explain three-dimensional forms to his architecture students.

Via Euronews