Giant sculpture to be located in Liffey

“Exceptionally bad”: I don’t agree Urban_Forms, I think we are quite lucky in our public art: two henry moores, a calder, the fantastic delaneys, the oisin kellys, the cool rachel joynt lights, that great behan seaman on the north wall, the o’connell monument, the michael warren by the dcc offices, even the fun vincent browne usher and the parnell monument, per capita, I don’t think many cities do better.

I’m not saying there isn’t good public sculpture but there is so much that’s just so bad – I’m talking about the Phil Lynott statue, Molly Malone, Children of Lir… need I go on? If the sculptures themselves aren’t bad then what’s bad about them is the choice of location or their scale. Alot of what you’ll find in Dublin looks and feels like it’s just been plonked there and there’s been no effort made to make the surrounding public space make reference to it. Either that or they need to be of a larger or more prominent scale.

I think he manages to pull it off

I thnk the use of screen in front of sculpture is genius
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gormley/

his fuzzy scultpure are amazing good pages here on how there design
http://www.lusas.com/case/civil/gormley.html

http://www.ddda.ie/index.jsp?pID=93&nID=94&aID=424
The six shortlisted artists included: Dorothy Cross (Ireland); Antony Gormley (UK); Luis Jimenez (USA); Andrew Kearney (Ireland); Thomas Schutte (Germany) and Grace Weir (Ireland). Tragically, Luis Jimenez passed away during the year.

this is what you get when you look for a bubble matrix
http://www.antonygormley.com/newsite/viewwork.php?workid=550&page=12
good

but here’s bit on ireland.com about what it might look like
http://www.ireland.com/blogs/presenttense/2007/08/02/dublins-giant-new-sculpture-insert-witty-nickname-here/

studio view, to see what he’s working on
http://www.antonygormley.com/newsite/viewwip.php?wipid=4

…….pretty harmless piece

Harmless, yes, i agree, although the thing looks 50 m tall….

actually too safe would be my interpretation…..

i can just imagine it being covered in fairy lights at christmas too…..

I agree….

Might be better had it been solid (and floodlit at night).

@notjim wrote:

Artist’s impression in today’s times:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/images/2007/0823/1187332383005_1.html

:confused: I don’t like that at all. What is it supposed to represent?

Actually when I saw it first, i thought it was urinating too.
It’s not as offensive as it could have been but I still don’t want a sculpture in the river.

@notjim wrote:

Artist’s impression in today’s times:

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/images/2007/0823/1187332383005_1.html

im not sure its show the complicatedness of the engineering that hes trying to, if you look closely the struts angles feel slightly unnatural, titled and I guess this puts movement into the sculpture but….

is this the emptiness archbishop brady was talking about?, well maybe it is if AG think our bodies are open molecularly then this a monument to our new understanding of physics 😮

I was hoping it would be a negative space sculpture…

http://www.ddda.ie/index.jsp?pID=93&nID=94&aID=424

@Paul Clerkin wrote:

Actually when I saw it first, i thought it was urinating too.
It’s not as offensive as it could have been but I still don’t want a sculpture in the river.

he’s definitely looking down inspecting something. maybe they’ll install a camera in mr. bubble’s eyes to track all the little yellow duckies they’ll lose next year.