Powerless Structures, Fig 101 - Trafalgar Square, London, UK.
N 51° 30.466 W 000° 07.704
30U E 699272 N 5710203
A larger than life Guilt-Bronze sculpture of a young boy on a rocking horse, named 'Powerless Structure, Fig 101' conceived by the Nordic artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset. Located on the fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London.
Waymark Code: WMF3QK
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/18/2012
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The guilt bronze sculpture is 4.11 metres high and 4.32 metres long and weighs 3.1 tons.
"Raising his right arm in a gesture that alludes to the pose of the big daddy of the genre (the colossal portrait of Marcus Aurelius in the Capitoline Museums in Rome), this curly-haired kid is rapt in fantasy — play-acting at conquering the known world like a pint-sized Alexander the Great, or riding from some two-horse frontier town into the Wild West. He leans backwards as his steed rears up, imbuing the composition with sprightliness — something missing in the statue by Le Sueur, whose horse decorously raises a foreleg in a display of dressage-like control". Text Source: (
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