At the end of last month, Trafalgar's Fourth Plinth in London was graced with a new artwork, replacing the commission that has been gracing the plinth for the past two years ('The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' by Michael Rakowitz on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth). For the next two years, the fourth plinth will be the home of the new artwork by Heather Phillipson, "THE END". "THE END" is the tallest sculpture on the fourth plinth so far and is a sculpture in the shape of a giant dollop of whipped cream with cherry on top. A giant fly has landed on one side of the cream, and on top of the cherry on the other side, a massive drone has landed. This drone's propellers move, showing a dimension to the sculpture as a statement that it is alive and watching. The statue appears to be a whimsical piece with dark undertones: drones symbolising decreased privacy and flies symbolising a dirty pest of death, churning stomach when around food.
Every two year's, Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth gets a new artwork. The plinth was originally created for a statue of William IV, but the funds were never sufficient, so the fourth plinth has been used in the past 13 years to place a new artwork.
Previous commissions that had time on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square can be seen in the following posts:
2018: 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist'
2016: Really Good
2015: A horse skeleton with a stock ticker tape
2014: A giant blue rooster
2012: A boy on a rocking horse
2011: Ships in a bottle
2009: members of the public were encouraged to do their own 'thing' on the plinth
2005: limbless pregnant female
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