Sentences with phrase «plinth filled»
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.
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Displayed on plinths filling the rear gallery space, Fifty - One US Military Outposts (2010) is a series of photographs of overt and covert military outposts used by the United States in 51 countries worldwide.
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The fourth plinth has never been permanently filled, but since 1998 it has been used to show a series of specially commissioned artwork.
London mayor Boris Johnson unveils Katharina Fritsch's Hahn / Cock, the latest artwork to fill square's empty plinth
Gormley was speaking today as it was announced that he and Yinka Shonibare had won the contest to be the next two contemporary artists to fill the fourth plinth.
And over the last 20 years she has put together a body of work that includes the Holocaust memorial in the Judenplatz in Vienna, the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, filling the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern with 14,000 plastic boxes and providing a new frieze on the façade of the Whitechapel Gallery.
As Schimmel guides me through, Schimmel notes adjustments that need to be made, support structures to switch out — endless details to worry about — all while a cacophony of clanking hammers and whirring power tools fills the background with white noise as MOCA staffers wearing laminated badges and the unmistakable sheen of exhaustion unpack shipping crates and erect plinths....
It's bolstered by three plinths that showcase sculptures: a see - through Longchamp handbag filled with an oozing mass, or razor blades that appear to be frozen in resin.
Hahn / Cock, the latest work to fill the square's empty fourth plinth, is by Katharina Fritsch, the German artist (or «sculpture... er, sculptor... er, sculptress», as the city's mayor, Boris Johnson, described her).
In 1998, he was awarded a Henry Moore Fellowship at the British School in Rome and in 1999, he was asked to fill the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, and provided Ecce Homo to huge public acclaim.
«The closed fingers of the massive hand fill the long rectangular plinth, while the stupendous vertical thumb offers a 21st century answer to Nelson's Column itself.»
Their stand this year has been divested of dividing walls and filled with a grid of plinths, each of which supports a domestic - size sculpture by an artist in the gallery's extensive stable.