martin goddard  | 14 Dec 2022 2:45 a.m. PST |
Hope someone here can help?
Years ago there were some pieces of 3D artwork.
They used Airfix soldiers to make a helix painted in steel colour and called ??? The artwork was worth 1 million pounds or similar.
It might have been in the Saatchi collection. I remember it was by a pair of artists but after that it gets fuzzy in my mind. Any help appreciated.
Thank you. martin |
| King Monkey | 14 Dec 2022 3:28 a.m. PST |
Could be something by the Chapman Brothers? |
| Dagwood | 14 Dec 2022 5:13 a.m. PST |
I could do that. For a million pounds, I could do that… |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 14 Dec 2022 6:07 a.m. PST |
Do you mean  **g Hell by Jake and Dinos Chapman? |
| martin goddard | 14 Dec 2022 6:30 a.m. PST |
Wow and Wow!
This is like a hive mind.
Thank you all for finding this.
martin
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3rd5ODeuce  | 14 Dec 2022 1:31 p.m. PST |
I'm thinking Airfix was not interested in using that piece for advertising. |
| Rdfraf | 14 Dec 2022 4:03 p.m. PST |
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| Dexter Ward | 14 Dec 2022 4:05 p.m. PST |
The cover art of the Steeleye Span album 'Commoners Crown' features a crown made from Airfix figures |
| Rdfraf | 14 Dec 2022 4:07 p.m. PST |
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| arthur1815 | 15 Dec 2022 9:44 a.m. PST |
I remember visiting some galleries along the South Bank of the Thames when my son was a boy, about twenty years ago. In one we saw an 'artwork' comprised of about twenty five 54mm plastic WWII soldiers (possibly Airfix) spray painted white and splattered with drops of red paint – presumably to represent blood and wounds. It was imaginatively titled 'War is Hell' or something of the sort. I forget the exact price, but it was several hundred pounds. I did a quick calculation and concluded I could make something similar myself for a total outlay of less than ten pounds, and took pleasure in telling the gallery assistant that on our way out. |
| FusilierDan | 15 Dec 2022 5:19 p.m. PST |
image of Steeleye Span cover from an ebay link ttps://www.ebay.com/itm/313374734536?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=313374734536&targetid=1263104805766&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=9004287&poi=&campaignid=14859008593&mkgroupid=130497710760&rlsatarget=pla-1263104805766&abcId=9300678&merchantid=6318344&gclid=Cj0KCQiAqOucBhDrARIsAPCQL1ZqIovULf26lI4P26ugLAsmELbeWOCWLxtd-NJklcrnkukSKVoEgd8aAqzhEALw_wcB
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| martin goddard | 17 Dec 2022 12:43 a.m. PST |
Thank you Dan.
We all need to dig in our spares bin and make some huge money art pieces (??)
martin
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| Robert le Diable | 22 Dec 2022 2:23 p.m. PST |
This thread brought to mind two memories.
First, I wondered if the work in question might have been something inspired by Goya's "Disasters of War", in which some of the etchings were realised in three dimensions, using converted plastic figures, just as in the original enquiry (14th Dec), and as already identified above. Secondly, when I saw these vignettes on some BBC News or Arts programme about twenty years ago, I recalled a series of articles in Airfix Magazine from fully forty years ago, in which the 54mm hard plastic kits of Napoleonic soldiers were used to make a number of vignettes inspired by Lady Butler's painting of the aftermath of Blalaclava/"Charge of the Light Brigade". There are a number of observations that might be made! However, I'd find it more interesting to find out just how many Wargamers and Modellers use paintings, and indeed statues, of military subjects as models for their own conversions, command groups, diorame and so on. |
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