Strange Public Art

Strange, disturbing and depressing public art is appearing all over the UK. This video features a short segment of a talk in Bournemouth by Brian Gerrish. What is the true purpose of this art?

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[texanbloc]

Much of this stuff - like the aforementioned Face of Wigan - resembles "artwork" you'd find in Kim Jong Il's North Korean regime: a continual reminder that a faceless, mysterious "Big Brother" is monitoring your moves. Lots of the art - eg, The Dream in St Helens - is funded or partly-funded by the European Regional Development Fund, and much of it is designed by non-British Europeans (The Dream was designed by a Spaniard). So there is evidence, amongst other things, of a pro-EU agenda.

[systemanic]

Great video, hope people will see this & spread the info; People need to be aware that this isn't art & isn't for the publics benefit.Wigan has some very strange art recently, 1 of is a large head of a man that sits at the back of the shops in a place called the Weind in the town centre.Its named 'the face of Wigan'.I doubt its meant to represent anything about Wigan at all.Others include metal spikes on a busy road & 3 figures on a 'arch' above a roundabout just off the m6.Weird artwork.

[texanbloc]

@systemanic Thank you. This stuff needs exposing for what it is; moreover, people need to question the agenda behind it.

[systemanic]

@6musky Quite true, but it's convincing people that this stuff isn't nice. All you get it "i'm not bothered" or "it's ok i suppose". People need to wake up to this stuff. Surely people must think "hang on, something aint right with this art".

[6musky]

@systemanic

I've seen that - this is from a newspaper report-

Louise Pearson, development manager for Modus said: "We are delighted to have assisted in the delivery of this important piece of public art.

"We are also happy to see that it is in a prime location to oversee the next phase of the town centre's regeneration."

The head is OVERSEEING the 'regeneration' of the town.

It looks like a giant penis.

[6musky]

I don't see the problem with the ship in a bottle at Trafalgar Square.

[lemsip]

@systemanic It all started in the sixties and even the fifties to create a kind of concreted over futurescape. Then people would get lost more often in planned environments than in organic ones so the artworks were brought in to help people navigate themselves.

[lemsip]

The most disturbing art is in the Tate Modern Gallery. I've been in there twice both times in August and it took months to recover my energy after it was drained by seeing the sculptures and paintings. Don't go to art college and don't even do an A-Level in art. Instead teach yourself how to draw and paint properly from books and learn geometry. Learn the craft first and the creativity will come.

[lemsip]

The white statue by the shop Accessorize and Monsoon is a living statue in Cardiff's Queen Street. I don't mind the ship in the bottle as it's not too intrusive and it is in Trafalgar Square named after battle at sea after all. I thought the artworks were just a way to employ art graduates but they must have been taught in this wierd way to begin with and also to attract visitors but most visitors couldn't care less about them and it's the local people who have to put up with them most.

[Bardotbardot]

Look up this horrible set of warped wooden totem poles bent over, called The Watchers, on the school grounds at Fort Hill Community School on Kenilworth Road in Basingstoke. They look creepy and are deliberately placed where kids see them everyday

[LouiseCWharton]

I don't like the blue clowns :( I wish you hadn't put them on here because they are too scary and now I'm abit worried about going into city centers :(

[systemanic]

@texanbloc Thanks for that. I think it does remind you of the Big Brother state we live in.Once you look closely it becomes apparent symbolically speaking.At least in some sense it means something, but not for own good.Im sure both the local council & public have zero say in what happens to the town, but people are made to think they have like with most other things.If you go on the local community site & say the art is for a malignant purpose, meaningless & ugly, people will laugh.