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Gift Horse - 4th Plinth - Trafalgar Square
The new commission for the Fourth Plinth, Gift Horse by artist Hans Haacke, was unveiled by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson on 5th March in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Commissioned by the Mayor as part of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Programme, Gift Horse is the tenth sculpture to be unveiled on Trafalgar Square’s celebrated plinth.
Gift Horse portrays a skeletal, riderless horse – a wry comment on the equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth. Tied to the horse’s front leg is an electronic ribbon displaying live the ticker of the London Stock Exchange, completing the link between power, money and history. The horse is derived from an engraving in The Anatomy of the Horse of 1766 by George Stubbs; the famous English painter whose works are represented in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.
Gift Horse - 4th Plinth - Trafalgar Square
The new commission for the Fourth Plinth, Gift Horse by artist Hans Haacke, was unveiled by the Mayor of London Boris Johnson on 5th March in London’s Trafalgar Square.
Commissioned by the Mayor as part of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Programme, Gift Horse is the tenth sculpture to be unveiled on Trafalgar Square’s celebrated plinth.
Gift Horse portrays a skeletal, riderless horse – a wry comment on the equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth. Tied to the horse’s front leg is an electronic ribbon displaying live the ticker of the London Stock Exchange, completing the link between power, money and history. The horse is derived from an engraving in The Anatomy of the Horse of 1766 by George Stubbs; the famous English painter whose works are represented in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square.