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Originally Posted by Chris T
From what I heard on the radio yesterday, the artist's only real interest is in shock value, which is why the statue looks quite shoddy close-up - it's made of moulded pieces stuck together rather than being properly sculpted. His 'skill' is in shocking people, not producing quality art.
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"This is 11.5 tonnes of bright-white marble hewn from the Tuscan mountains; it took four Italian craftsmen 10 months to carve its shape........ The final month of work has seen Quinn's sculpture carefully polished with sandpaper and pumice, giving it a blinding white sheen from which sheets of light seem to bounce."
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...&postcount=106
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Originally Posted by orangebird
Whatever his motive (and like the law about breastfeeding on public etc) - Anything like this that forces people to address their prejudices isn't a bad thing IMO.
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Indeed. And the siting is important. As the artist says, he want's it to be noticed whereas most established public art simply blends into the landscape and is ignored.
"He hopes the statue might encourage people to examine again our landscape of public sculpture. "No one really looks at it," he said. "But this statue will mess with people's subconscious. It's as if someone has come into your room when you're not there and moved the bed."
The sculpture, selected from a list of submissions by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, under the auspices of the mayor of London, will tower over the square for 18 months, after which it will be replaced by Thomas SchÃÃâ€*’¼tte's Hotel for the Birds. Quinn hopes, however, that this will not be the end for Alison Lapper Pregnant. He would like it to be bought by a sympathetic individual, and permanently displayed in London - "maybe next to Field Marshall Haig, on Whitehall". He believes London is the only city in the world that could have commissioned such a sculpture. "It's a city that's not afraid of taking risks. It's a place that's full of tradition, but also about innovation, capable of embracing the future. And it's a city of diversity - this work embraces that, too."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/st...568604,00.html