Giant sculpture to be located in Liffey
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An even more pointless proposal.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3886980.ece
I marvel at the positioning of the sculpture, right in front of a gigantic power line.
I hope they check there are no soldiers inside.
A modern wickerman
Why not put it in Grand Canal Harbour, where it might give some point to an otherwise empty sheet of water? (If you’re going to put it anywhere.)
@johnglas wrote:
Why not put it in Grand Canal Harbour, where it might give some point to an otherwise empty sheet of water? (If you’re going to put it anywhere.)
Why are people so weird about Grand Canal Harbour, first it is an important recreational area, something to which a giant statue would be a big impediment and b) it is an expanse of water, its expansiveness is part of its appeal.
notjim: nothing ‘weird’ about it – I had noticed it was an ‘expanse of water’ (!) and it’s big enough to ‘absorb’ this object and still allow everything else to take place (including passive contemplation of the expanse). As others have said, the current placing seems completely random and pointless.
@johnglas wrote:
.. as others have said, the current placing seems completely random and pointless.
Not all others!
I know the DDDA want a futuristic feel to the docklands.I just can’t see it,or put my finger on it!
Top marks mud hut! 😀
related to jabba da hut?
Muahahaha 😀 if only!
I think it looks great, we have the men in Crosby another great piece of work by Mr Gormley and believe me the volume of people who flock to the beach in all weathers to take quirky pictures of the statues has totally changed the area…
Perhaps this is what DC are hoping for with the selected loaction for the piece of art, I would travel to Dublin to come and see and photograph this Huge piece of artwork.
Check out the New BIG ART in St Helens, Merseyside…
20mtr high Child dreaming…not completed for another 4 weeks yet there must have been at least 100 people there today…this has to be good for the area..
Now this is what we *really* need in the Liffey…
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/06/gundam-night-pics/
http://www.examiner.com/x-10430-Japan-Travel-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Lifesized-Gundam-statue-in-Tokyo-is-alive/ Wow!
Is this project still going ahead? Last I heard it was cancelled, then revised and is going ahead again.This shizz still going ahead?
The idea is a goodun but the proposal just looks like litter in the Liffey.
Yixian, seriously you need to read the papers. THe DDDA is broke, it has no money, it needs finance from the Govt. Therefore this is gone bye bye, it’s something for the long-term
Somehow I doubt financial realism is going to prevent Crosby and co from decorating Point Village and Spencer Dock with gimmick after gimmick in order to drag people up there by the time they’re ready to open to the public – Harry’s wheel, this Liffey man, whatever.
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