| BANKSY's new sculpture: 'Cardinal Sin'. |
| Written by Sacha Young | ||
| Friday, 16 December 2011 12:54 | ||
BANKSY has just unveiled a new sculpture entitled 'CARDINAL SIN', which sits in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England. The piece "is a 18-century stone bust of a priest with its face sawn off and replaced by blank "pixelated" bathroom tiles. It was created as a response to the child abuse scandal in the Catholic church and its subsequent cover-up." Reyahn King, director of art galleries at National Museums Liverpool, said this about the sculpture: "The sculpture very clearly contains a message. When you look at it and see the tiles that have been applied to the sawn-off face, you immediately get the impression of those pixelated images of suspected criminals you see on screen or in a newspaper photograph." "I'm never sure who deserves to be put on a pedestal or crushed under one." - Banksy Take a closer look below...
[ Source: My Modern Met ] |
