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Hahn/Cock is a sculpture of a giant blue cockerel by the German artist Katharina Fritsch. It was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square on 25 July 2013 and is displayed on the vacant fourth plinth. The fibreglass work stands 4.72 metres (15.5 ft) high and is the sixth work to be displayed on the plinth, on which it will stay for 18 months.
Hahn/Cock, the latest work to fill the square's empty fourth plinth, is by Katharina Fritsch, the German artist (or "sculpture … er, sculptor … er, sculptress", as the city's mayor, Boris Johnson, described her).
Gleefully feminist, the work pokes amiable fun at the vainglorious statues of men (Nelson, George IV, and generals Havelock and Napier) that surround it in this most imperial of British public spaces. "Humour is always a big thing for me," said Fritsch. "It stops things from becoming too severe. I like English humour. It is so often very dark."
The sculpture was unveiled by Johnson, who, despite his claim that "my critical faculties are exhausted by this wonderful sculpture" had plenty to say, not least a thinly veiled jibe at David Cameron's recent efforts to crack down on online pornography. "If you were to Google the sculpture in a few years' time," he said, "search engines would collapse at the behest of the prime minister. Er, quite properly of course." He warmed to the theme later. "You would be forbidden by prime ministerial edict from looking at it," he told journalists. After a meaningful pause, he added: "Quite right too."
Noting the fact that the cockerel is the national emblem of France (a connection registered by Fritsch, she said, only once she had proposed the idea), he added: "I hope French people will not take it as excessive British chauvinism – but for me it stands for the recent British triumph in the Tour de France, which we have won twice in a row … it is a symbol of French sporting pride, brought like a chicken to London. We have mounted this French cock at the heart of our imperial square."
Asked to expand on this particular piece of art criticism by representatives of the French press, Johnson replied: "C'est un jeu d'esprit, c'est une blague" ("It's a witticism, a joke"), but added that he was proud to be the mayor of the sixth-largest French city (home, as it is, to 250,000 French nationals, he said).
Did he feel his manhood crushed by the gentle feminist provocation against male modes of power? "No not at all," he said. "I am happy to channel the power and enthusiasm of that bird; I feel inspired by its regal manner and mood of confidence."
One could almost hear him straining to avoid using the word "cock" (hahn is German for cockerel, and it carries a similar double meaning in Germany). In the last moments before the great black cloths covering the sculpture were loosened, the major invited the crowd to welcome "the big, blue [here came a Pinteresque pause]… bird".
Fritsch said she was intrigued by the prospect of "lively and controversial" reaction from the public. "Art is not made for a few people – it is not an elitist thing." The 57-year-old added that she was delighted by the challenge of a sculpture of hers being positioned so prominently, and the energy that would bring with it.
She said she hoped the work had "many meanings; you can play around with it. It's humorous and also serious". She noted its context not just among "male persons standing on pedestals" – but amid the present-day cocks of the walk. "London is a business centre; there are streets round here like Jermyn Street specialising in men's suits. There's a real male culture around the place."
Fritsch added: "It is a feminist sculpture, since it is I who am doing something active here – I, a woman, am depicting something male. Historically it has always been the other way around. Now we are changing the roles. And a lot of men are enjoying that."
The fourth plinth, as it is known, is in the square's north-west corner. Built in 1841, it was designed to hold an equestrian statue – like its twin, in the northeast corner, that depicts George IV. But funds ran out and it remained empty. In 1998 the first in a series of temporary sculptures for the plinth was commissioned. Works by Rachel Whiteread, Yinka Shonibare, Mark Wallinger and Antony Gormley are among those to have occupied the space since.
Hahn/Cock, which was selected by the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group (a body that includes artists Grayson Perry and Jeremy Deller), will occupy Trafalgar Square for 18 months.
Joe Cocker / Joe Cocker!
Trackliste:
-Dear Landlord (Bob Dylan) - 3:24
- Bird On The Wire (Leonard Cohen) - 4:29
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Lloyd Price) - 2:14
- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Lennon-McCartney) - 2:36
- Hitchcock Railway (Don Dunn) - 4:38
- That's Your Business Now (Chris Stainton, Joe Cocker) - 2:58
- Something (George Harrison) - 3:33
- Delta Lady ( Leon Russell) - 2:52
- Hello Little Friend (Leon Russell) - 3:48
- Darling Be Home Soon (John Sebastian) - 4:43
Chris Stainton - piano, organ, guitar
Alan Spenner - bass
Bruce Rowlands - drums
Henry McCulloch - guitar
Leon Russell - piano, organ, guitar
Milt Holland - percussion
Sneeky Pete - guitar
Clarence White - guitar
Paul Humphries - drums
Joe Cocker - vocals
(arranged by Chris Stainton, The Grease Band and Leon Russell)
Recorded at A&M Studios; Sunset
Sound
sleeve design: cover photo by Globe Photos, Inc.
Label: Cube Records / 1976
ex Vinyl-Collection MTP
Quatro Cookers de 2 meses abandonados em Guarulhos.
Encontrado 4 cooker abandonado na estrada do Cabuçu a própria sorte. Um estava morto.
Com medo, fome e calor, vieram quando abaixei e os chamei.
Levei para clinica veterinária é estão super bem.
Serão castrados vacinado e doados.....
Contato com Michel - micheleduardo@uol.com.br
My uncle-in-law bought me fabric markers so I could make him a shirt. This is what I drew for him. I think it may be crooked though! I have to see when he tries it on.
Grave of Samuel and Maggie Cocking, Clay Cross Cemetery
Cocking, Maggie
Born 14th June 1895
Died 15th March 1941 aged 45
Wife of Samuel Cocking, of 15 Ward Street, New Tupton. Died at Ward Street.
1939 Register
Husband of Samuel Cocking, an invalid and former coal miner, of 15, Ward Street, Tupton, Derbyshire
St Mary, Shenfield, Essex
Although the combined town of Brentwood/Shenfield/Hutton has a population not far short of 100,000, This is a small rural church right on the edge of the conurbation and set in a pretty although overneat churchyard with woods beyond.
The church is open every day, as the permanent sign outside makes clear. As you'd expect from a church serving an urban population it is entirely 19th century inside, but very pleasant nonetheless.
The star feature is a terrific memorial of the Commonwealth period with the effigy of Elizabeth Robinson, a 15 year old girl holding a baby and a skull. She died in childbirth, the baby survived. The story goes that her father was a parliamentarian, her husband a royalist, but her death united the families. This seems a little unlikely in 1652, but it is a nice story.
Some good Kempe and Powell glass, but in trying to be welcoming they keep all the lights on, which makes the glass rather hard to photograph.
Some people were working on the bells, and it sounded very odd to hear them being tested in such a random and cacophonous manner - I rather liked it, it sounded like something you'd hear on Radio Three's 'Here and Now'.
Cocking, Maggie
Born 14th June 1895
Died 15th March 1941 aged 45
Wife of Samuel Cocking, of 15 Ward Street, New Tupton. Died at Ward Street.
1939 Register
Wife of Samuel Cocking, an invalid and former coal miner, of 15, Ward Street, Tupton, Derbyshire
This is the cock ring that I sent my brother when he was in Iraq.
Where he's been!
b. Chasm, BC
2. Jennerator
d.I Wore This Cock Ring To In N Out, And All I Got Was This Creamy Milkshake!