I have been a big fan of Mr. Anthony Gormley since his project Field back in 1991 and his man-figures that have dominated landscapes and cityscapes in recent years. I find his work mesmerizing and his recent man-figures across the London Skyline were truly stunning.
Well yet again Mr. Gormley is going to grab our attention with his living art project One & Other for Trafalgar Squares 4th Plinth.
This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.
To me, although it is art it is also is a stunning Live Event that is putting the public right at the heart of the experience and is a superior example of engaging the public in a spectacle, on the other hand there are some very poor variants doing the rounds, such as the really poor T-Mobile Ad, in which they had professional dancers perform in a train station and then tried to convince us that this was some kind of Flash Mob scenario!
