Trafalgar Square Fourth Plinth Is Not Art

I must admit I was initially taken in, conned or blinded by the concept of the so called living art exhibition that is currently taken place on the 4th plinth of Trafalgar Square, which is called “One & Another” and was the brainwave of the renowned sculptor Antony Gormley. In the cold light of day and having actually seen it a few times with my own eyes, I can honestly day that it is one total load of rubbish and it is most certainly not art, if that is the case I’m the new Picasso.

For me it is one big monumental waste of money.  I don’t know how much money it has cost, for security and the hiring of the hoisting equipment, but what I do know is that £1 is too much to have been spent on this crap.

I reckon they should have stuck a gold fish up there in wee bowl and that would have had more life in it and been more interesting than most of the members of the public they have had up there. It seems to me that any time I have been passing the Square and had a look to see who was up there, they all have had one thing  common, which was that they were all quite frankly boring grey little people that don’t get out very often or never get let off the leash.

I know there have been people up there on the Fourth Plinth trying to promote good causes and they deserve a wee bit of credit, but quite frankly they would have got more publicity if they wandered around central London with a bill board. Because most people up there have had around an average of 10 people watching them in Trafalgar Square and around 3 on the live web cam.

I watched some old Irish woman on the live web cam on the plinth  a few weeks ago and it was like she had climbed mount fucking Everest she was so chuffed with herself. She was on the mobile to her grand kids, “did you ever think your crazy Auntie would do something as exciting as this”. Let me think about that one, standing on a lump of stone talking rubbish, watched by a grand total of 13 people is exciting for you. It probably is.

Or the other day they had some real sad loser of a fifty year old man, stripping naked for his few seconds of fame. He is seemingly going through a separation and all I can say to that is his girlfriend, boyfriend or his pet dog is having a lucky escape. He sort of sums it up for me, it isn’t about art it is mainly about sad, grey and talentless people that live boring and empty life’s. They somehow think that there life is going to become exciting and change for the better by standing on a lump of grey stone. Changing your life requires effort and determination, sorry but there are no quick fix solutions and once your hour on the plinth is up, its back to normal.

Gromely’s so called living artwork “One & Another, shouldn’t be called  art and what seemed like a good idea is nothing but boring and as meaningless as all the other dull and lifeless old statues in Trafalgar Square. I had a brain wave when I was watching the “It’s a Sort of Magic”, show which was happening in Trafalgar Square the other day, that things would have been so much more enjoyable if they had Zigmund and Froyd up there. Or I offer the services of my Staffie Mable, who will husk a dozen coconuts with her teeth in her hour up there, now that is something worth watching………

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