New art work at BBC HQ

[SSH]

The BBC did pay £350,000 pounds for the piece but it's most likely part of the 1% for Art Policy. Buildings or developments which are over a certain value, reserve a percentage [normally one percent] of the full construction costs for art work, normally public art pieces.

[Lefty]

it's nice, definitely adds some colour, but it's way overpriced. And as 'the most expensive piece of public art ever erected in Glasgow', one would expect something abit more grand.

[Toaster]

Anyone remember the "metal squares" sculpture that moved in the wind, used to stand on the Clydeside between the Suspension Bridge and Jamaica Bridge? This looks like a big static colour version of that, to me.

Maybe we could get it removed on a charge of plagiarism, if the charge that it's crap isn't good enough...

I vaguely remember seeing the three squares thing, years later, in the West Quadrangle at Glasgow Uni. Not sure if that was a new permanent home.

[KonstantinL]

Is it only me that thinks the money would have been better spent on a nude marble sculpture of Heather the Weather, in the style of Praxiteles?

[JayKay]

It's terrible. Lazy retro 'design' masquerading as contemporary art. As banal as a daytime tv makeover.

I look forward to the day it is subjected to some cheeky and irreverent vandalism that sees it relocated to the Clyde, with just enough of it visible above the waterline so that it can still be subjected to an occasional 'point and laugh' from passers by.

[glasgowken]

Appauling

[potatojunkie]

How about "Shittles"? It's multi-coloured, like Skittles, but it's also shit, like Skittles.

Crap concept, ugly result.

[dave2]

What public art could they have though whic would look good next to the building and met the councils demand for ''public space'. It's a goddam business park ffs. Why do teh council think we need public space next to TV studios?

[potatojunkie]

For the money they could have built a projector based on a Baird televisor[1] and shot light through that big glass monster all night. It would at least be relevant, and if handled properly could look amazing.




[1]Or could they? Is that even remotely possible?

[Mori]

For the money they could have built a projector based on a Baird televisor[1] and shot light through that big glass monster all night. It would at least be relevant, and if handled properly could look amazing.




[1]Or could they? Is that even remotely possible?

Its the ideas from NORMAL people that would adapt to a normal environment PJ, i mean if no one was told of what that monstrosity was who would know WTF it is.

your Baird televisor Idea is phenomenal i must say, its ideas like that that should have been consulted through the Scottish public forums and art students and bodies societies that would have brought us a good peice of art that would have been appreciated by all and worth its money overall.

i for one hope this shite gets criticised so much that they end up having to take it down and get replaced with some thing more accepetable to the human retna.

Am efen raging

[crusty_bint]

teheh poor Mo!

I very much doubt any public outcry would make them take it down and the £350k price tag is a drop in the ocean of the £3.1billion they made from TV License revenue in 2005/06!

[glasgowken]

Looks like they've got the washing out

So, just how does a few sheets of metal, wood, & plastic, on a frame, cost £350k ?

[Bonz]

I'd call it OSWALD.

Oddly Situated, Wasted A Lotta Dough..............

[thecatsmother]

I'd call it CRAP

Cynically Reaping Arts Payout!

[HollowHorn]

Think thats bad, wait till you read this:





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