It's finally finished & open to the public!
As some of you know I've been working as an assistant to Heather & Ivan Morison for the last month or two helping to make this. It's called Black Pig Lodge and is installed at the Hayward Gallery for the Festival of Britain. I reckon it's a pretty impressive structure and well worth checking out if you're in London over the next few months.
More info at
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/tickets/black-pig-lodge-1000112
http://www.morison.info/
Sam
Looks good dude!
ReplyDeleteI didnt realise this was going to be in the festaval of Britain and I didnt even realise the festaval of Britain was even on!
The festival of Britain immediately reminds me of the first one the goverment set up in the 50s to show what this great nation - buckled by huge debt and depression from the recent war - was capable of; with its utopian idealised future of concrete and technology. I havent had a proper look at what this work is about but the fact that this piece uses the wonderful brutalist urban monolith that is the South Bank as its platform/plinth, that it looks like the lodge is made from the same materials and the fact this glorious British nation is again stuck in the rut of depression is for me a wonderful context this work can be associated with.
Also thinking about it when was the last Festival of Britain?
The original festival of britain was in 1951 and was itself marking the centeniary of the Great Exhibition so yeah this work is referencing both the post war one and our industrial history as far as I understand it. It's actually mostly made of coal (from one of the last collieries in wales) used as a type of concrete.
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