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Re: Anthony Gormley's fourth plinth

From:     Rodney Ward
Category: Art
Date:     08 July 2009
Time:     07:01 AM

Review:

Gormley's democratic dalliances are much like any overbearing autocrat with a big opinion about
themselves in that they must force everyone to appear to be as reasonable and boring as he is. 
Watching some mercilessly brainless ass sitting on the fourth plinth just sitting there "looking at
a great city", If only the idiot had the nounse to motivate himself instead of being one of Gorms
Pawns he could get a better view from the St.Martins in the Fields belfry without having to say what
a marvellous opportunity Gormless had given him, Gormless is now shadowing flesh-in-the-pan has been
Mark Ravensbill (Shopping and Farting) into the Archers radio four studio, after weeks of art
agitprop where no doubt about it Front Row plaudits will lap up Mark Lawsons fawning glee, based on
the totally unswerving irony of those mishapen Grotowskian Clowns siding up to dear old Auntie Beebs
anachronistic pre-soap, after shower odourless, colourless mind numbingly stereotypical load of cow poo.
The problem is that Gormless is now the manilla envelope, the office standard rubber band, the HB
government issue pencil, he is the little saucer with a moistened sponge on the counter, he is the
buff form that must be filled in because it is to Gormley that the faceless crowds of Mr Men look
when they need to go somewhere on a wet Sunday that is'nt too expensive or too shocking, somewhere
for the children where they can mingle in a cigaretteless, risk assessed heaven in their GAP anoraks
and low fat Tesco crisps and I never thought I would say it publicly God Bless Jeremy Dellar at MIF
until July 19th,  yes The Archers are doing their own version of the plinth y'know?  REALLY??? Yes,
and the villagers all stand on a bale of hay for an hour, God I really hope some insurgent art
undergrounder has a shit on the plinth live, that's fauvism is'nt it?.
Ravensbills great claim is that he gave the same masses an opportunity to say the eff word at their
dinner parties, barbeques and gastro pub soirees, like Coldplay and Harry Potter and Wallace and
Grommit and Four Notting Hills and a Gate a part of the great Tate Britain pastel coloured
investiture,like all the relentlessly grey digital things connected to commitees of cctv camera's
and audio visual technicians "only doing their job" to what extreme will these patronizing losers go?
The only good thing about this event is that Yinke Shonibare is on next.


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