Mary Wollstonecraft memorial statue provokes mixed reaction

[bimble]

I think it’s going to get guerilla knitted very soon.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is it near a dock...?

Damien Hirst's 'Verity' is next to a harbour but sadly not one deep enough to drown it in.

 

[Poot]

Damien Hirst's 'Verity' is next to a harbour but sadly not one deep enough to drown it in.

Ah. You see, I know this is controversial but i love Verity.

 

[8ball]

They should have built a

I think it’s going to get guerilla knitted very soon.

Considering it’s “public art” this seems like a good compromise.

 

[brogdale]

i like it.

Reminds you of obscure prog rock album covers?

 

[Serge Forward]

Damien Hirst's 'Verity' is next to a harbour but sadly not one deep enough to drown it in.

Verity is ace... and not at all underwhelming like this new Wolstencraft one.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Verity was part of Hirst's plan to gentrify Ilfracombe. It's a branding excercise for him. Public space, particularly in such a beautiful location, shouldn't be spaffed all over by poncy London cunts for private gain.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I hate it. Increasingly think ‘public art’ shouldn’t be a thing at all. Somebody in a room somewhere commissions a thing and then everyone else has to live with it forever.
This one looks like pretentious ectoplasm .

I love public art that is art made for its own sake. Hirst's Verity is a good example. I also really like the Angel of the North. Normally, I find public art made to depict a certain thing or to commemorate a specific idea or ideal underwhelming. Useless art is far more useful.

I think I would like Hambling's tiny woman with a huge bush a lot more if it were not intended to have the function of commemorating Mary Wollstonecraft.

 

[Serge Forward]

But it's nice!

 

[Pickman's model]

I love public art that is art made for its own sake. Hirst's Verity is a good example. I also really like the Angel of the North. Normally, I find public art made to depict a certain thing or to commemorate a specific idea or ideal underwhelming. Useless art is far more useful.

All art is utterly useless

 

[bimble]

I love public art that is art made for its own sake. Hirst's Verity is a good example. I also really like the Angel of the North. Normally, I find public art made to depict a certain thing or to commemorate a specific idea or ideal underwhelming. Useless art is far more useful.

I'm so happy that the internet has a picture of this, it's the worst piece of public art i've personally ever seen, spotted earlier this year from a car in the outskirts of a town called Pilzen in the Czech Republic, surrounded by flats where people live, who have to see this every day. It is also huge.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm so happy that the internet has a picture of this, it's the worst piece of public art i've personally ever seen, spotted earlier this year from a car in the outskirts of a town called Pilzen in the Czech Republic, surrounded by flats where people live, who have to see this every day. It is also huge.
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That makes me instantly smile. I'd want to live next to it.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm so happy that the internet has a picture of this, it's the worst piece of public art i've personally ever seen, spotted earlier this year from a car in the outskirts of a town called Pilzen in the Czech Republic, surrounded by flats where people live, who have to see this every day. It is also huge.
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It has a certain charm and would look well where Churchill currently stands. Maybe we could do them a swap

 

[bimble]

That makes me instantly smile. I'd want to live next to it.

I'm sure you'd be very welcome to kidnap it and take it home with you. There are haunted children in those flats surrounding it who would thank you.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I'm sure you'd be very welcome to kidnap it and take it home with you. There are haunted children in those flats surrounding it who would thank you.

Local parents are very grateful for it.

Be good, or the pink rabbit will come and rip your head off with its huge teeth.

 

[bimble]

Thats the thing with public art, i'm not saying the monster bunny is bad art, i kind of like it in a way, i'm sure it came with a decent bit of pretentious A4 about cronus & the duracell bunny or whatever but it should not be there, where thousands of people who didn't choose it have to live with it.

 

[Raheem]

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The way it's surrounded by churned-up mud suggests the local kids at least get some use out of it.

 

[MickiQ]

It's fucking hideous looks like one of those figurines you see in the Garden Centre that usually look vaguely Greek Goddess - like. I would expect a statue to someone to kind of look like them.

 

[Pickman's model]

Thats the thing with public art, i'm not saying the monster bunny is bad art, i kind of like it in a way, i'm sure it came with a decent bit of pretentious A4 about cronus & the duracell bunny or whatever but it should not be there, where thousands of people who didn't choose it have to live with it.

I'm sure the flats came with some pretentious guff from the architect about le corbusier and designing in community but I wonder how well they've stood up to actual use. Quite possibly the people living in the flats have greater concerns than adam trbusek's sculpture

 

[bimble]

I do like that about you, I too have found my way to his website, in czech.
The flats might have plenty to improve about them but if someone placed that thing outside my window without my consent i'd feel that it was .. not an improvement.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

tbf those big soviet-era blocks are generally much nicer inside than they are to look at from the outside. Do you know the locals weren't consulted?

 

[tim]

You should be grateful that they didn't commission Anthony Gormley to do it. He'd have supplied a gargantuan naked statue of himself with a couple of falsies welded to the chest

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Urban's not the best place to discuss modern art, is it?

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've driven through Plzen and most of the buildings seemed to.have bullet holes in them. A large rabbit eating someone looks like it would fit right in

 

[blossie33]

Just seen this posted on FB
Someone has got at it already

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I like the Covid cape. But covering her boobs and bush? Really? That's a sad response.

 

[purenarcotic]

I'm so happy that the internet has a picture of this, it's the worst piece of public art i've personally ever seen, spotted earlier this year from a car in the outskirts of a town called Pilzen in the Czech Republic, surrounded by flats where people live, who have to see this every day. It is also huge.
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So many questions....

It has made me laugh though. In total horror, obviously, but laugh nonetheless.

 

[platinumsage]

I like the Covid cape. But covering her boobs and bush? Really? That's a sad response.

It‘s what Mary would have wanted.

 

[bellaozzydog]

Are some artists just trolling us

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It‘s what Mary would have wanted.

Yes. Mary Whitehouse.