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David Shrigley and Hans Haacke Selected For London’s Fourth Plinth

Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Artists David Shrigley and Hans Haacke have been announced as the 2015 and 2016 commissions for London’s Fourth Plinth sculpture project.  Shrigley will install an enormous hand giving a thumbs up on the plinth in 2016, while Haacke will show a skeletal horse sculpture as next year’s piece.  “What’s exciting for me is the opportunity to make something on a scale you couldn’t possibly imagine making yourself.”  Shrigley says. (more…)