As we previously reported Tupac is to be immortalized in wax at at the world-famous Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas at the glorious Venetian Hotel.
The brand new sculpture will be part of the "Tupac Eternal" exhibit that is the latest contemporary addition to the gallery. The statue and exhibit will be unveiled on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at a special ceremony commencing at 11:00 A.M.
Each of Tupac’s tattoos will have been redrawn and individually hand-painted onto the sculpture. The finished effigy has taken months to complete, involving more than 700 hours of work and over 330 pounds of clay. The entire wax figure will weigh approximately 55 pounds. To place Tupac in his own environment and make the "Tupac Eternal" exhibit a complete sensory immersion, Madame Tussauds is attempting to obtain the rights to use some of 2Pac’s music through Interscope Records and Universal Music Publishing, which will add a further layer of reality to the unique "Tussauds experience."
Also, to commemorate the historic 10th Anniversary of Tupac’s passing, Madame Tussauds is considering sending the new wax figure on its own world tour later this year. Once it has been viewed at the Las Vegas museum, the sculpture is destined to travel to the galleries in New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and London before it will be exhibited at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts (TASCA) in Atlanta for a full month. The figure is scheduled to arrive at the Center by the end of this memorial year.
The brand new sculpture will be part of the "Tupac Eternal" exhibit that is the latest contemporary addition to the gallery. The statue and exhibit will be unveiled on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at a special ceremony commencing at 11:00 A.M.
Each of Tupac’s tattoos will have been redrawn and individually hand-painted onto the sculpture. The finished effigy has taken months to complete, involving more than 700 hours of work and over 330 pounds of clay. The entire wax figure will weigh approximately 55 pounds. To place Tupac in his own environment and make the "Tupac Eternal" exhibit a complete sensory immersion, Madame Tussauds is attempting to obtain the rights to use some of 2Pac’s music through Interscope Records and Universal Music Publishing, which will add a further layer of reality to the unique "Tussauds experience."
Also, to commemorate the historic 10th Anniversary of Tupac’s passing, Madame Tussauds is considering sending the new wax figure on its own world tour later this year. Once it has been viewed at the Las Vegas museum, the sculpture is destined to travel to the galleries in New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and London before it will be exhibited at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts (TASCA) in Atlanta for a full month. The figure is scheduled to arrive at the Center by the end of this memorial year.
