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Antony Gormley on the Fourth Plinth from One & Other on Vimeo.

The meaning of Antony Gormley's installation cannot be overrated. He managed to pull the essence of Enviroment Art out and he placed it in the most visible, accessible and contemporary space: Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth and Website (http://twitter.com/PlinthWatch).


The idea behind it is great as Great Britain itself. The author generated a project where the public is an essential component for its success. Then he gave his live-sculpture an elevated spot for a democratic view. This contemporary Speaker's Corner found recognition around the world with 2.9milion visits to the on-line streaming.

http://www.oneandother.co.uk/

The origines of the art that engages with its viewer and is site-specific is to be found in earlier surrealists and dadaists artwork;and was developed in 50s by pop-art. The sculptures have stemmed into enviroment within various realities.

F.T. Marinetti in the Futurist Manifesto (1909) put it like this:

'Musseums: cemeteries! ... Identical, surely in the sinister promiscuity of so many bodies unknown to one another. Museums: absurd abattoirs of painters and sculptors ferociously slaughtering each other...(cemeteries of empty exertion. Calvaries of crucified dreams, registries of aborted beginnings!). ...Smash them...pitilessly'.

Joseph Beuys added in 1973:

'Civilizatiojn is an art work and everybody is an artist'.

I could not agree more))

Joseph Beuys most famous work to be found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8lUC2Pjtoc