Sky Atlantic Unveils Giant Sculpture of Jude Law

Be still, our beating hearts: an 8ft by 6ft, multi-faceted 'sculpture' of actor Jude Law has just been unveiled at London Olympia. 

A gift from God? Well, close enough: it's part of Sky Atlantic's marketing push for its new series The Young Pope, which hits screens tomorrow and stars Law as the controversial pontiff-in-waiting Lenny Belardo, who went on to become Pius XIII.

Entitled 'Saint-Sinner-Pope-Man', the sculpture is the handiwork of Brooklyn perceptual artist Michael Murphy, best known for his portraits of Barack Obama which spearheaded the Art for Obama initiative during the 2007 US elections.   

Murphy is known for playing with the viewer's perception in his multi-dimensional pieces and the Sky commission, which uses a novel four-sided illusion technique, is no exception. Featuring 100 hanging aluminium crucifixes containing fragments of Law's image, the artwork took over 10 hours to assemble, with the laborious process captured in the making-of film below.

It's not the first time Sky has turned to the slightly leftfield medium of sculpture to promote upcoming shows: for the latest season of Game of Thrones, the broadcaster enlisted snow artist Simon Beck to create a stunning landscape mural of a direwolf [below].

The Young Pope will screen on Sky Atlantic from 27 October.