The skeleton of a horse was replaced by the blue rooster on the Fourth plinth
ARTinvestment.RU   06 марта 2015

A new landmark Trafalgar square for the next year — sculpture of Hans Haacke "Gift horse", which is a bronze skeleton horse

the Fourth plinth in Trafalgar square to celebrate new hero: change sculpture "Blue rooster" Katharina bird decorating the pedestal 18 months, comes "Gift horse" Hans Haacke. And if the majority of the old heroes of the Fourth plinth, including "Blue rooster", came in a strong color, texture and semantic contrast with the other three bronze statues in the square, the "Gift horse", by contrast, looks more like a successor to these stately classical monuments. Sculpture Haacke is a bronze skeleton of a horse, something like x-ray. This is an unexpected companion for equestrian monument to king George IV, standing in a nearby corner of the square, the same dark patina, the same proportion. Sculpture Haacke't look like a parody, but rather a new interpretation.  

"Gift horse" Hans Haacke, height of almost five feet and weighing 1 700 pounds, borrowed its proportions and silhouette of a horse with etchings by George Stubbs - the famous British artist and animal painter, one of the pioneers in the authentic image of horses. On the left leg bronze skeleton on the Fourth plinth "tied" gift bow with running e-string, showing the change of the index of the London stock exchange FTSE 100 index (based on courses of shares of 100 companies with the largest capitalization). This sculpture reflects the relationship between power, money and history, "said London mayor Boris Johnson at the opening ceremony, and is a stunningly original statement about the relationship between art and Commerce". As told to the author, 78-year-old German-American artist, he often comes up with a work based on the proposed context, and Trafalgar square in the architectural, geographic and socio-political terms, was a fruitful place to raboty@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: theguardian.com, artdaily.com, artinvestment.ru