Bang" an attractive sculpture erected in East Manchester to celebrate the 2002 Commonwealth Games is coming down. In truth its demise began almost as soon as it went up when spikes separating from the main body plunged earthwards skewering a group of nuns. The holy sisters, and how ironic that now sounds, all celebrants with The Venerable Order of "Redemption through Pain" were in town for a convention.
The impaled postulates were not popular except with local flagellants so won't be missed, unlike "The B of the Bang." Boo hoo.
PS.
Not being keen on the name "The B of the Bang" I suggested to the City Council as an alternative, "You could put someone's eye out with that." They never replied.
4 comments:
Have they actually decided to take it down now?
Last I heard they'd just got millions of dosh compensation to help maintain it.
A,
I read it in the evening news last week so it must be true. Apparently the whole thing's falling apart and will cost too much to fix and too much to maintain. Shame really because I like the damn thing.
Holy shoot...at first I thought it was a giant version of a plant we have here. Well, the plant is green and not so big but big enough and it has huge spikes that nice owners cover with egg shells. Man, Dan, that thing looks scary. Stunning and scary.
G,
In the flesh, so to speak it looked excellent. It was quite an awesome piece of sculpture and generated lots of comment and debate, as public sculpture should. In the main though it brought lots of pleasure to folk, that is until bits began to drop off, until stumps began to replace spikes. Then it started to look ridiculous, which is a shame because at the beginning the object itself was spectacular. Ah well...
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