St Pauls Cathedral
It was the first sculpture to grace the fourth plinth but Mark Wallinger’s work Ecce Homo has now found a new home on the steps of St Paul’s.
The work — showing Christ with his hands bound behind his back and with a crown of barbed wire — was installed in front of the cathedral this morning.
The move, 18 years after it was seen in Trafalgar Square, is a collaboration between the artist, the cathedral and campaign group Amnesty International to highlight the plight of prisoners of conscience around the world.
Wallinger, who won the Turner Prize in 2007 for his recreation of a peace protest camp in Parliament Square, said: “This vulnerable figure stands at the top of the steps outside the entrance to St Paul’s Cathedral as we approach Easter to highlight the plight of people around the world who are imprisoned and whose lives are threatened for speaking the truth, for what they believe.
Ref:Evening Standard
St Pauls Cathedral
It was the first sculpture to grace the fourth plinth but Mark Wallinger’s work Ecce Homo has now found a new home on the steps of St Paul’s.
The work — showing Christ with his hands bound behind his back and with a crown of barbed wire — was installed in front of the cathedral this morning.
The move, 18 years after it was seen in Trafalgar Square, is a collaboration between the artist, the cathedral and campaign group Amnesty International to highlight the plight of prisoners of conscience around the world.
Wallinger, who won the Turner Prize in 2007 for his recreation of a peace protest camp in Parliament Square, said: “This vulnerable figure stands at the top of the steps outside the entrance to St Paul’s Cathedral as we approach Easter to highlight the plight of people around the world who are imprisoned and whose lives are threatened for speaking the truth, for what they believe.
Ref:Evening Standard