So I just commented over there, but we'll see if it gets posted. In the interview with the Beeb the artist is incredibly earnest -- and yet, this piece is hilarious. It's like a Jef Koons. A monumentally scaled totchke of a traditionally gendered couple on a plinth -- the typical presentation of memorials to the state and warfare. It's extremely post modern in its irony. Although I can't tell if the artist actually intended that. If he did, he's not letting on, which makes it all so subversive.
that thing in front of Penn Station is an eyesore and meeds to go away NOW. Get a REAL SCULPTOR- like the one at Pancras Station- to do a piece of REAL ART for a change- instead of this overly publicised cartoon "art" that we accept so willingly here in the USA.
To each his own, but I think the first sculpture (as I said above) is much more cartoonish. Laughably so.
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