DACS artists Liliane Lijn, Hans Haacke and David Shrigley are among the six shortlisted for the next two Fourth Plinth commissions in London’s Trafalgar Square. You can see their proposals at St Martin-in-the-Fields until 17 November 2013.
The famous commissioning programme sees a temporary artwork, sometimes controversial, installed on the empty plinth in the north-west corner of London’s Trafalgar Square.
Surrounded by historical monuments which evoke eras of patriotism and war, the Fourth Plinth artworks are known to spark debate and discussion around what constitutes public art today.
The Fourth Plinth 2015/16 shortlist
The following six artists have been shortlisted for the next two commissions, which will be unveiled to the public in 2015 and 2016:
Marcus Coates, Hans Haacke, Mark Leckey, Liliane Lijn, David Shrigley and Ugo Rondinone.
We are delighted to see Liliane Lijn, Hans Haacke and David Shrigley in the line-up, the first two artists represented by DACS for
Copyright Licensing and the latter for the
Artist’s Resale Right.
Lijn’s proposal continues in the vein of her ‘poem machines’, and comprises a pair of kinetic cones which bend and dance around each other. Haacke proposes a riderless skeleton of a horse, to which is attached a live ticker of the London Stock Exchange, whilst Shrigley evokes his characteristic dry humour in a 10-metre-high thumbs up.
Small models of all shortlisted ideas can be viewed at a free exhibition at
St Martin-in-the-Fields until 17 November.
View the proposals in a virtual tour of the exhibition.
Find out more about the Fourth Plinth
The Fourth Plinth is currently occupied by
Katharina Fritsch’s blue cockerel, Hahn/Cock, until the beginning of 2015. Previous commissions include Elmgreen and Dragset’s
Powerless Structures Fig. 101 and Antony Gormley’s
One & Other.
The programme is funded by the
Mayor of London with support from
Arts Council England. Selection is overseen by group of leading figures from the art world including artists Grayson Perry and Jeremy Deller and Iwona Blazwick, Director of Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Find out more about the Fourth Plinth.
If you would like to reproduce an artwork by Liliane Lijn or Hans Haacke, apply for a licence online or contact us.
Image: Liliane Lijn, 'The Dance' © James O Jenkins. Courtesy of the artist and Riflemaker, London