{"id":16086,"date":"2015-03-09T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=16086"},"modified":"2015-03-09T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:41:33","slug":"do-not-climb-on-mark-wallingers-white-horse-on-the-mall-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/do-not-climb-on-mark-wallingers-white-horse-on-the-mall-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Do NOT climb on Mark Wallinger’s White Horse on the Mall, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Do<\/p>\n

“Do not climb on the horse” says the warning sign by the eminently climbable and hugely inviting White Horse sculpture on The Mall, in central London.<\/p>\n

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\"Do<\/p>\n

No sooner had I got my camera out than a bloke quickly leapt\u00a0on the horse and posed for his friend’s pics.<\/p>\n

\"Do<\/p>\n

The White Horse is the work of\u00a0Turner prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger, and\u00a0is a scaled-down version of a proposed 50m-high (164ft) sculpture\u00a0to be erected in the countryside of Kent<\/a> (which would be visible from the Eurostar).<\/p>\n

Funding for the full-size horse\u00a0has so far proved to be a\u00a0victim\u00a0of the recession, although if it does get the go-ahead, it would\u00a0stand more than twice the height of Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North statue,\u00a0and\u00a0cost up to \u00a315m to complete.<\/p>\n

Wallinger hopes that the mini-me marble and resin version in The Mall will\u00a0help “prod” funding for the bigger version.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0life-sized sculpture\u00a0was made by scanning a horse named Rivera Red<\/a> – partly owned by Wallinger – in a white light scanner, with the resulting scan being moulded into a robust resin, marble and steel structure.<\/p>\n

\"Do<\/p>\n

Commissioned by the British Council Collection and unveiled in March 2013, the horse may only remain in place – and continuing to tempt wannabe riders – for a little\u00a0while longer.\u00a0[—<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Chat about the sculpture -and see some novel ideas for how it might be improved – on the urban75 forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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