London Art On The River Thames Or Should I Say Junk

London art on the River Thames, I’m not too sure if it is really art or just a pile of mindless rubbish that I’m referring too. But I suppose what is a vision of beauty in your eye, is nothing more than garbage in mine.

I was out and about at the O2 in Greenwich yesterday lunch time for a meeting, which lasted for close to 2 hours. Afterwards I decided to go for a wee wander along the River Thames. My initial plan was to walk into central London, but the light rain helped me to change my mind. I decided to walk to the Thames Barrier instead.

As I was strolling along the River Thames I stopped and admired, let me rephrase that because those aren’t quite the right words to use. I stopped and looked at ‘Quantum Cloud’ a so called piece of modern art by a con man, sorry that’s my sense of humour kicking in. It was actually created by Antony Gormley a slightly well known pedaller of snake oil, sorry again, I meant artist.

I had walked past it a few times in the past and barely gave it few seconds of my time, I thought it was piece of junk, honestly I did. We are in a new decade and I thought I better make more of an effort to became culturally enlightened.

Antony Gormley is of course one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors, so I thought there must be more to Quantum Cloud, than just loads of pieces of steel slapped together. I spent a considerable amount of time looking at and studying this piece of art, trying to make sense of it.

After about 5 minutes I gave up and carried on my merry little way. I don’t care what Quantum Cloud is meant to represent in Gormley’s mind. I need it to represent something in my mind and quite frankly all it does is bore me. It is almost most as boring and unexciting as the “One & Other” crap Gormley was responsible for recently on the Fourth Plinth.

Further along the River Thames I stumbled upon some real art. Well it is more real than Quantum Cloud and it never cost anything to make. I hope it never cost anything to make. But I wouldn’t be surprised if some snake oil pedaller had conned £50,000 out of the local council or Mayor Boris Johnson for building it.

What the pile of junk art exhibit is called, I haven’t got a clue. But what I do know is that I can make more sense of it than Quantum Cloud. In my mind the pile of junk kind of sums up Gormley’s masterpiece.

Gormley should be inspiration for any struggling artist out there, because if he can make a amazing living out of  art, so can anybody with an ounce of talent. I think I will go and buy myself some scrap metal and a blow torch and see what I can make. I’m sure the Tate Modern could do with some more crap or perhaps something nice for the River Thames ….

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