Boy on Rocking Horse Claims his Spot in Trafalgar Square

 

On February 23, 2012, the British actress Joanna Lumley unveiled the new temporary artwork for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square. Conceived by the artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset, the work is a 4.1 meters high golden bronze sculpture that portrays a boy riding a rocking horse. The sculpture is titled Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 and stands in striking contrast to the motives of historical heroes and proud equestrian statues on the other three bases. 

The Fourth Plinth is one of four bases that stand at the corners Trafalgar Square in central London. 

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have finally added the missing equestrian statue to the Fourth Plinth, but their boy astride his rocking horse doesn't commemorate a glorious history, but is rather a symbol for the future, and puts the past in a different perspective.

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