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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:54 pm Post subject: Victory as a 3D patchwork |
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From another forum :
Quote: | The 'fourth plinth' in Trafalgar Square has for some time been used as a temporary venue for more-or-less eccentric "works of art".
Some time ago an artist named Yinka Shonibare, who seems to be well regarded, created a giant "ship in a bottle" to exhibit on the vacant plinth. The ship is a scale model of HMS VICTORY, except that it has patterned sails.
http://www.artfund.org/ship/nelsons-ship-in-a-bottle
Now it seems that the National Maritime Museum would like to have this thing, which I regard as a joke, and that the Art Fund has a campaign going to raise the necessary GBP 362,500 (in addition to a grant already made).
Do you like this thing? Do you think it reasonable to spend on it a sum that is comparable with the sum that a private buyer paid for the Union Flag worn by HMS SPARTIATE at Trafalgar, and which is now thought to have gone abroad?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221983/Only-surviving-Union-Jack-Battle-Trafalgar-sells-record-breaking-384-000.html
Martin H Evans |
Seems to me that some "curators" are in need of a serious "cure".
NMM is devoted (if I am right) to maritime history and I don't see any link between history and this piece of art.
Some strange stuff has already been displayed for the bicentenary and it's sometimes very difficult to distinguish what's art and what's a display for a christmas shop window.
This thing could easily find a place of choice in an American museum or at Harrod's.
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