Just to follow up on that comment (thank you both), the «Angel of the South» to which this writer refers is a competition to create a huge piece
of public sculpture near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in Ebbsfleet.
Not exact matches
Installations such as Field (1991, Arts Council Collection), which has been re-made by local communities across the world, and major
public works such as Angel
of the North (1998, Gateshead), Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach,
near Liverpool), One & Other (2009, a Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square, London) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, Holland) are amongst the most celebrated examples
of contemporary British
sculpture.
In This Hello America... engages both the physical and social architecture
of Bard College by re-envisioning the cultural space produced by Sasson Soffer's
public art
sculpture Hello America (1980), located
near the campus center.
If possible, visit your
nearest public art museum and take a look at some copies
of Greek or Renaissance
sculpture.
In 1963, a group that included Mr. Forakis, Mark di Suvero, Robert Grosvenor and Forrest Myers started exhibiting their work, playing free jazz and discussing the future
of public sculpture in a floor at the top
of a loft building in Lower Manhattan
near Park Place, where several
of them lived.
Antony Gormley produces
sculptures, mostly in metal and based on the human figure, which include the 20 metres (66 ft) high Angel
of the North
near Gateshead, one
of the first
of a number
of very large
public sculptures produced in the 2000s, Another Place, and Event Horizon.
In 2013, the Serpentine Gallery in London presents Fischli & Weiss» first
public sculpture in the United Kingdom, «Rock on Top
of another Rock,» installed in Hyde Park,
near the Gallery.