NY Post: Woke college students are ‘hurt’ by supposedly ‘phallic’ abstract sculpture.
Sir Anthony Gormley used steel blocks to create his piece called “Alert,” which was meant to portray a human squatting, but the students think it appears more equivalent to an “erect penis” instead.
With the art set to be installed this year in a plaza on campus, Gormley released a statement that appeared on the school’s website.
“Through the conversion of anatomy into an architectural construction I want to re-assess the relation between body and space. Balancing on the balls of the feet while squatting on its haunches and surveying the world around it, the attitude of this sculpture is alive, alert and awake,” he wrote.
The student union was less than impressed and released a statement of their own that was obtained by the Guardian. They were concerned the sculpture would ruin the school’s reputation.
Imperial College has a reputation? Does the student union think it's a "good" one?
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