Friday, 22 April 2022

VISIBLE FOR MILES

Continuing our sporadic glimpse into cut-away models is this tall statue.

It's at the entrance to Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Moonbase Central.


This colossal pregnant lady is over 20 feet tall and stood in a sheep field.


Like an Aurora anatomy kit she's showing what she's made of.


Its certainly a startling thing as you enter the park and may not be to everyone's taste, although I like it.

The statue is called the Virgin Mother by one Damian Hirst, he of the halved shark.

10 comments:

  1. I think its gross. I'm not a fan of Hirst's work, I find it deliberately offensive and crass. there are some beautiful pieces in the sculpture park, especially the Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth installations, whose organic shapes fit right in to the rural setting. But Hirst piece naturally is at odds with its surroundings and calls for attention, much like the artist.

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    1. Everybody Hirst sometime Wote. The dissected lady is startling I'll give you that. The photo's a year old so she may have walked off by now.

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    2. Or at least given birth.

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    3. ha ha, I'm chuckling Kev!

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  2. Here's the City of Helsinki's answer. Welcoming every passenger at Helsinki Port

    https://tinyurl.com/bp7fs3pf

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    1. Blimey, now that is unusual Arto. He's a funny looking boy for sure. I do hope to see him in the flesh one day though!

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  3. Slogan: "In Helsinki, even the showers are golden!"

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    1. ha ha, now that is marketing! Not one to google though!

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  4. Hirst is not an artist.
    Merely a fashionable attention seeker.
    Tracy Emin is similar. A craftless neurotic 'teenager' and, briefly, on trend self publicist.

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