TIRANA (AFP) — An Albanian artist has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for a third time, this time with a large mosaic constructed out of bottle corks.
Saimir Strati, 42, used more than 200,000 of the corks in the mosaic of a young man playing a guitar, measuring 12.94 metres wide by 7.1 metres high (39 by 21 feet).
"This work is dedicated to the Mediterranean spirit which is nourished by music, the sun and wine," Strati said at a ceremony to unveil his latest piece of artwork.
Strati entered the Guinness book of records for the first time in September 2006 with the world's largest portrait made of nails, of Leonardo da Vinci. It required more than 500,000 nails.
He followed that up a year later with a mosaic using just as many toothpicks dedicated to Antonio Gaudi, the Spanish architect famous for constructions including Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church.
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