As the black mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees in an interview with SkyNews, the author of the sculpture may have to pay for its removal. “We welcome the provocation, but you have to be adults and take responsibility for their actions,” said the mayor.
the Statue, made of resin and steel, the British sculptor Marc Quinn, a day earlier was installed without the consent of the authorities and public of the city on a pedestal, where for 125 years before there was a monument to Edward Colston, a British merchant, a member of Parliament and philanthropist, who was named the descendants of the “great benefactor of Bristol”. June 7 activists of the movement “black Lives matter” took the statue and threw it into the water, because Colston engaged in the slave trade.
While there was debate who deserves a place on the vacant plinth Marc Quinn (his most famous work – a sculptural self-portrait made from clotted blood and frozen) at night secretly put on a pedestal black women in full size. The model for the sculpture was a black stylist Jen Reid. Together with her husband she participated in the overthrow of the statue of Colston June 7, and then climbed onto the dais to pose for photographers. This picture I saw Marc Quinn, who carefully monitors relevant social trends. He has received the consent of Reid, writing in her social networks, and then printed sculpture on a 3D printer and then cast it in parts of black resin and steel.
the Emergence of “Wave power” was interpreted in different ways. While some admired the sculpture, someone put a number plate “Marc Quinn loves money, not black people”. Now the statue will be kept in the Museum of the artist, if he doesn’t want to sacrifice her to the city art collection of the city of Bristol. “I did not expect that the sculpture will remain on a pedestal,” said Quinn.
