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[christopher575]

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From a distance I thought this was a real horse and that he had plastic boots on. He's just a statue and I have no idea what he's carrying. Giant peanuts?

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[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

Perceval is a life-sized horse and cart, a replica of the sort of china ornament that have had pride of place on many British mantelpieces. Scaled up, the horse is majestic in his power but offers an unthreatening sense of stolid comfort in his benign reliability. In the proudly fashioned cart are two concrete cast squashes, outsize and off-scale, fertility symbols implicating a competitive rural contest to rival the ritual of the maypole. These giant vegetables are cast in cement, one of Sarah Lucas’s favored materials, and take the replication of the horse and cart knick-knack away from kitsch, the crudeness of this signature Lucas gesture thrown into sharper relief by the high finish of the bronze sculpture.

[cattycritic.livejournal.com]

God I love art critic copy. It's all so much ridiculous bullshit. "Thrown into sharper relief," gimme a break. I can has art cliché?

[scearley.livejournal.com]

I got a 20 that says "Sarah Lucas" wrote the copy.

[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

LOL

To me it just looks like a giant plastic horse.

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha...exactly!

[jedi-iwakura.livejournal.com]

PS If you get a chance to go up further about fifty streets north at all while you're there, stop by Angels & Kings and get your picture taken in front of their mugshot wall.

XD