Flaming Pablum reports that one of Anthony Gormley’s naked men was defaced over the weekend near Madison Square Park. We suppose this should come as no surprise; the pieces have created controversy for resembling suicidal jumpers, and if you’ll recall, something similar happened at LentSpace’s public art installation in downtown Manhattan last fall.
As we previously told you, the 31 anatomically-correct statues in the Event Horizon installation were cast from the artist’s own body. Don’t you think that means he’ll take this more personally? The man has won a Turner Prize, and now in his US public-art debut, a mini iron and fiberglass version of him is spray-painted with a boring hot pink tag.
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I was surprised it took so long for someone to tag it. Antony Gromley shoved some Antony Gromley into the city and the city gave back some city.
I loved seeing them in London. Feel sad that you don’t see them as something wise and free.
People who can’t make their mark upon the world, make marks on other peoples world. Something of beauty defaced with a meaningless pink scribble.
I have mixed feelings about it. The article refers to the tag as “boring.” Why not make reference to the fact that Mr. Gormley’s statue is “boring?”
What if a “name” artist had “tagged” Mr. Gormley’s statue? Would we be talking about the social significance of a “cross” being imposed upon the statue? Or the social significance of the color “pink” being used for the “cross?”
“Tag” most commony refers to a grafitti signature of some sort. Rather than a “signature,” this seems to me to be someone’s aesthetic response to Mr. Gormley’s “art.” It certainly visually enhances what is otherwise visually mundane.
Seems like this guy has no ideas. A bunch of statues of yourself? How pathetic, crafty and selfish. As for the ‘tag’, I think that’s what happens when you place 31 naked statues of yourself in public.
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