Sentences with phrase «empty plinth»

Above empty plinths of various sizes, a group of mimes will shape the air with their hands, rebuilding iconic modernist sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, David Smith, and Henry Moore.

Then come on down to Art Basel's Unlimited section this week to check out the impressively valanced rising art star Davide Balula's piece with Gagosian Gallery, where a group of trained mimes wearing art - handling gloves and standing behind empty plinths will enact running their hands over specific artworks from the historical canon, including pieces by David Smith, Henry Moore, Giacometti, and Louise Bourgeois.

Above empty plinths, a group of Balula's mimes will shape the air with their hands, rebuilding iconic modernist sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, David Smith, and Henry Moore.

Commander John Muxworthy, a Lt Commander on the SS Canberra during the Falklands conflict, yesterday called for a permanent statue commemorating Lady Thatcher to be placed on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

His work Ecce Homo, 1999, was the first piece to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Programme, the 4.7 m high sculpture will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 months.

Beyond hangs Michael Simpson's Squint 33 (2016), a sanded - back oil painting of an empty plinth.

Amongst the «invisible» works, an air flow, an empty plinth, a black room, a maze navigated by sound & text works with instructions how to make an art work.

What we need now is a big, positive symbol on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Hans Haacke and David Shrigley have been awarded the next two commissions for London's empty plinth

The sculpture is by Iraqi - American artist Michael Rakowitz, and part of public art project The Fourth Plinth Programme that has seen the empty plinth filled by a range of work from Anthony Gormley to David Shrigley.

The 4.7 m high sculpture titled «Hahn / Cock» will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 months.

London mayor Boris Johnson unveils Katharina Fritsch's Hahn / Cock, the latest artwork to fill square's empty plinth

It involves a rolling program of contemporary art commissions to be installed temporarily on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

As far as Lynn Barber is concerned, the debate over the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square is redundant - Mark Wallinger's Ecce Homo has taken over the vacant possession and long should he remain

Projects featured include House (1993) a monumental cast of a nineteenth - century terrace house in the East End of London for which she won Britain's Turner Prize, the Water Tower (1998) which graced the skyline of downtown New York, Vienna's Holocaust Memorial (2000), Monument (2001) created for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, and Embankment (2005 - 2006) installed in the Tate Modern's vast Turbine Hall.

In fact, some of her best - known pieces include «House,» a large concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house; the holocaust memorial sculpture in Judenplatz Vienna; and a resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.

Trafalgar Square: Fourth Plinth The Fourth Plinth is the name given to the empty plinth in the north - west corner of Trafalgar Square in London.

On a lighter note, 2016 also saw David Shrigley became the eighth artist to create a large - scale sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square as part of Fourth Plinth — one of the UK's most prestigious art commissions.

The 4.7 m high sculpture occupied Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 months.

As a human mime shapes the air suggestively above an empty plinth, the surrounding works in the exhibition seem to come alive, revealed to be the manifestations of each artist's complex relationship to space, matter, and history.

Also in the exhibition will be Warhol's work Invisible Sculpture — dating from 1985 — which consists of an empty plinth, on which he had once briefly stepped, one of his many explorations of the nature of celebrity.

Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 - 2012 opens on 12 June and includes an empty plinth, a canvas of invisible ink and an invisible labyrinth.

She has also provoked controversy at home with works such as Plinth, a copy of a plinth placed upsidedown upon the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

The bronze cast of a fist with an out - of - proportion thumbs - up was the winning commission for the Fourth Plinth Project, which has been inviting artists since 1999 to make a proposal for the empty plinth, originally intended to hold an equestrian statue of William IV that was never made.

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Tracy Emin proposes to place a sculpture of a small group of meerkats on the empty plinth as a symbol of unity and safety.

Antony Gormley's proposal is that the empty plinth be occupied 24 hours a day by members of the public volunteering to stand on it for an hour.