Career
He is best known for his Cast the Sleeping Elephant Project, a life-size bronze statue of an African elephant. lieutenant was produced in 1980 by making an alginate cast of a live, wild Kenyan elephant bull, which survived the 72 minute process unharmed. The bronze statue made from the cast was inaugurated in 1998 by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and is installed at United Nations Headquarters in New New York
Simeonov v.
Tiegs, a lawsuit Simeonov brought in 1993 against model Cheryl Tiegs, is a leading case in the field of artists" rights under United States. law. The court held that Simeonov"s First Amendment right to free speech in making casts of Tiegs"s body outweighed her right to privacy.
