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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 15:40:37, 06-01-2008 »
... the Grauniad has a write-up of the ongoing saga about the Britten Memorial Sculpture erected on an Aldeburgh beach...

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2236081,00.html
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« Reply #1 on: 17:11:02, 06-01-2008 »
Pleased by the "related story" blurb at the bottom:

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Another controversial Gormley work of 100 cast iron naked male figures on Crosby beach provoked local wrath. Some thought them pornographic because of the simplified penis.

A pedant writes: would they have objected less if the penis was more complex?
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« Reply #2 on: 17:39:47, 06-01-2008 »
I've seen both the Aldeburgh Scallop and Another Place. I think they are both ravishingly beautiful.

Interesting that the vandalising in Aldeburgh appears to be done by the same hand each time. I also find it interesting that Britten commented so eloquently on the small town mentality in Peter Grimes, and apparently not much has changed.
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« Reply #3 on: 18:46:36, 06-01-2008 »
Agreed, Mary. I think Hambling's work, and its location, are powerful and appropriate.
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« Reply #4 on: 21:44:46, 06-01-2008 »
I am inexplicably reminded of "The Glue-Man" in "A Canterbury Tale" (Powell & Pressburger)...
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« Reply #5 on: 01:35:12, 07-01-2008 »
Quote from: Mary Chambers on 17:39:47, 06-01-2008
I've seen both the Aldeburgh Scallop and Another Place. I think they are both ravishingly beautiful.
I'm so pleased you said that, Mary. I've never seen anything by Antony Gormley that I didn't think was ravishingly beautiful.

I've never seen this Scallop. I think a trip to the seaside is called for.
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« Reply #6 on: 03:05:02, 07-01-2008 »
Quote from: C Dish on 17:11:02, 06-01-2008
Pleased by the "related story" blurb at the bottom:

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Another controversial Gormley work of 100 cast iron naked male figures on Crosby beach provoked local wrath. Some thought them pornographic because of the simplified penis.

A pedant writes: would they have objected less if the penis was more complex?
Maybe it was the threshold - 99 complex penes they could take, but it was the 100th, simplified one, that broke the proverbial camel's back.
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« Reply #7 on: 09:03:19, 07-01-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 01:35:12, 07-01-2008
I've never seen this Scallop. I think a trip to the seaside is called for.



...but it's very well worth seeing it in the flesh, as it were.
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« Reply #8 on: 11:54:06, 07-01-2008 »
It's difficult to get the scale of it in a photo. The setting is absolutely part of the sculpture:




Another Place is virtually impossible to photograph. 100 figures scattered across beach and sea into the far distance - just can't be captured. This one is the best I've found so far:
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