H'boro memorial statue

[davek]

Liverpool Echo.co.uk - News - Liverpool Local News - New Hillsborough memorial statue to be unveiled in Liverpool


This is causing a storm of protest amongst the Reds:

Besides the question of taste, can you imagine the problems a 15 foot version of this model in the town centre will cause?

Some people haven't got the sense they were born with.

 

[chrissyjack]

Something similar to what they have at Anfield with all the names on would suffice. That or a memorial garden with benches dedicated to the victims. The way that statue looks, they may as well just erect some railings

 

[Muggins]

That statue looks horrific.

 

[Goat]

Thats just sick.

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Ffs. The worst of it is some prick has probably won a prize for that

 

[Goat]

He wins Goats biggest tosser award, no higher honour.

 

[bluebastardo]

It looks like some image from Hellraiser.
Not very sensitive.

 

[davek]

I have to *laugh* when the sculptor says it's what the families think that matters in all this. But he goes off without consulting them about what would be a fitting memorial and just does the most controversial statue and presents it as a fait accompli.

He needs to go off and melt down what he's done already and make one based on an image the families agree on...and if he has any copper left over make one for the Heysel victims while he's at it.

 

[Goat]

I think this fella in the comments nails it :

This is an appalling piece of work. Shocking, graphic and inappropriate.

Would the partly burned remains of a Holocaust victim inside an oven at a death camp be acceptable? I think not. What was the artist thinking when he undertook this work? It is supposed to be a memorial not a reminder of the moment of death to further scar the victims of Hillsborough relatives. Melt it down a.s.a.p.

 

[davek]

Spot on that comment.

Here's the thing for me though: if this feller was acting on his own and just got it completely wrong out of being an *artist* disconnected from the effect his work would have you could begin to fathom it...just. But this feller was commissioned by the council and ex-mayor and must have gotten an ok for his images prior to doing the model. So they've all stood back and thought that ******* mess was appropriate.

Unbelievable.

 

[Muggins]

I have to *laugh* when the sculptor says it's what the families think that matters in all this. But he goes off without consulting them about what would be a fitting memorial and just does the most controversial statue and presents it as a fait accompli.

He needs to go off and melt down what he's done already and make one based on an image the families agree on...and if he has any copper left over make one for the Heysel victims while he's at it.

I was Brussels when they were rebuilding Heysel, they actually have quite a moving and appropriate plaque in the corner of the stadium.

Not like this shocker!!!!

 

[Sharpys top lip]

In very poor taste that..!!!!

 

[NeoNaoNeo]

I have to *laugh* when the sculptor says it's what the families think that matters in all this. But he goes off without consulting them about what would be a fitting memorial and just does the most controversial statue and presents it as a fait accompli.

He needs to go off and melt down what he's done already and make one based on an image the families agree on...and if he has any copper left over make one for the Heysel victims while he's at it.

Wow you never miss an oppurtunity, tact doesn't even come into it.

Statue is a disgrace. If he ever said that it's what the victim's families would want it's bollocks, he's never asked us and if he did we'd tell him where he can stick it.

 

[monty]

Sorry but I think you are all being very unfair to the artist, he is simple trying to capture the tragedy.............that said we are all very aware of the horror hence his choice is flawed. I feel certain his commission must have laid down parameters for his design, they normally do, a less dramatic, more reserved design would have been preferable

 

[davek]

Wow you never miss an oppurtunity, tact doesn't even come into it.

Statue is a disgrace. If he ever said that it's what the victim's families would want it's bollocks, he's never asked us and if he did we'd tell him where he can stick it.

Not sure what you mean by that??