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Beach Crosby
When viewed from afar, it may seem that this is a crowded nudist beach. However, coming closer, it becomes clear that these hundred figures are bronze sculptures that are installed on the shore. This art exhibition sculptor Antony Gormley entitled "Another place". The composition consists of 100 cast-iron figures, designed to face the sea, situated on a plot of a coastal line 3.2 kilometres long, each of which is an exact copy of the body of Gormley cast in natural size.
Height of each statue 189 cm, weight about 650 pounds, was made of cast iron in steel mills of Halifax and West Bromwich. At high tide the statues, some partially, some completely immersed in the sea. Initially, the project "Another place" was created in 1997, and traveled to Europe. At different times of the statues were placed on the beaches of Cuxhaven (Germany), Stavanger (Norway), De Panne (Belgium).
In 2005, Antony Gormley received permission to install a sculpture near Liverpool for a period of 16 months, then song had to go to new York, but some English art funds, together with sculptor appealed to the municipality with a request to leave the statue on a regular basis in Merseyside. In March 2007 it was decided to leave the statue. "Elsewhere" turned the beaches of Crosby in the popular attraction.
Antony Gormley's work for several years, is the subject of intense debate among local art critics, lovers of active leisure on water, the coast guard, the hospitality industry and environmentalists. Controversial causes even the appearance of the sculptures, in particular, are unnecessary, according to some residents of Crosby, anatomical detail. Representatives of the hotel industry argue that the sculptural group significantly increases inbound tourism and boost the local budget revenues. According to the staff of the coast guard, tourists who want to examine sculpture up close, you risk sinking into the sand and be cut off from the shore at high tide.
Of even greater concern sculptures have sailing and other forms of active recreation on the water — iron counterpart Anthony Grimly, having gone under water at high tide, represent a real danger for athletes.
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Height of each statue 189 cm, weight about 650 pounds, was made of cast iron in steel mills of Halifax and West Bromwich. At high tide the statues, some partially, some completely immersed in the sea. Initially, the project "Another place" was created in 1997, and traveled to Europe. At different times of the statues were placed on the beaches of Cuxhaven (Germany), Stavanger (Norway), De Panne (Belgium).
In 2005, Antony Gormley received permission to install a sculpture near Liverpool for a period of 16 months, then song had to go to new York, but some English art funds, together with sculptor appealed to the municipality with a request to leave the statue on a regular basis in Merseyside. In March 2007 it was decided to leave the statue. "Elsewhere" turned the beaches of Crosby in the popular attraction.
Antony Gormley's work for several years, is the subject of intense debate among local art critics, lovers of active leisure on water, the coast guard, the hospitality industry and environmentalists. Controversial causes even the appearance of the sculptures, in particular, are unnecessary, according to some residents of Crosby, anatomical detail. Representatives of the hotel industry argue that the sculptural group significantly increases inbound tourism and boost the local budget revenues. According to the staff of the coast guard, tourists who want to examine sculpture up close, you risk sinking into the sand and be cut off from the shore at high tide.
Of even greater concern sculptures have sailing and other forms of active recreation on the water — iron counterpart Anthony Grimly, having gone under water at high tide, represent a real danger for athletes.
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