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From: Richard Kerney Category: Art Date: 23 June 2008 Time: 12:44 PM Review: So Gormley slithers his relentless progress up onto the fourth plinth by salivating over another Wallinger idea; human scale sculpture represented as monumental. Londoners chose Boris Johnson so why the hell not opt for the urbane dilutions of a career obsessed middle brow, middle class school teacher disguised as a reasonable, luke warm, sainsbury shopper, after all - it's only the big institutions that actually want the stuff to lure push chair laden cannon fodder into creating maximum "throughput" in their turbine halls. It makes Jamie Oliver look intellectual; How much more of this grey tasteless spew have we got to endure?