Ireland's crappiest public art.

rizzodun · 28-06-2017 10:49PM

There's a few crap ones in Sligo alright.

Strandhill - No idea what it's supposed to be

Along the Garavogue river
Some b.s. about 'planes' & 'lines' reflecting off the water yada yada.

Local story is that it was supposed to act as a nesting area for the local swans, even though the growth around it does a much better job, cannot see the point in it at all.
http://www.publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/linesplane-laruscygnus/fa284e5bc92108a1210d76d1fad5e00a/

However, Sligo has some excellent ones too:

W.B Yeats sculpture located outside the Ulster Bank (although it can divide opinion)
'Waiting on the shore' in Rosses Point

My favourite, and one of the least known is the 'Faoin Sceach' on the grounds on St. John's hospital, where the old famine workhouse & graveyard was located

http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/pages/SligoFamineMemorial.html

humberklog · 28-06-2017 11:00PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

What does this mean? Your phone is a computer. It's more than capable of inserting a link to an image in tags.

It's code for me being in my late 40's and get confused easily and don't want to move on from basic sh!t.

worded · 28-06-2017 11:08PM

The spire

Deleted User wrote: »

Its a monument to the big erection we were all going around with during the celtic tiger until we blew our load and the troika came in to bail us out

The Troika came and took our balls you mean

The spire is a hideous phallic symbol

The crane for the erection was 10k per week and due to weather conditions couldn't place the last piece for weeks, they got Xmas out of it it if I remember correctly and rode the tax payer for as much as possible

Edit .... yeah just googled it. Wind was citied for weeks on end as the factor stopping the
Spires nob being added. They really milked it

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/final-piece-of-dublin-spire-put-in-place-1.457435?mode=amp

and on cleaning it .......

It is expected that the spire will cost upwards of €40,000 of taxpayers’ money to clean this weekend. The structure was touted as “self-cleaning” when first erected in 2003 at a cost of €4.8m.

However, the council conceded that its maintenance cost €205,000 last year and will increase to at least €218,000 this year.

worded · 28-06-2017 11:13PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I really liked the Anna Livia monument on O'Connell Street. I liked sitting there on the granite listening to the water. It's just a pity the city is full of so many dirty scruffbags who congregated around it and left the place like a pigsty when they moved on. It couldn't have been cleaned enough times in a day. I'll never understand people who litter, or why Irish society still hasn't had a cultural change on this issue.

I recall leaving the odeon or what ever it was caled on O'Connell st and someone had added washing liquid in and the street was awash with big fluffy clouds of thick bubbles. Was very funny at the time

Academic · 28-06-2017 11:14PM

rizzodun wrote: »

There's a few crap ones in Sligo alright.

Strandhill - No idea what it's supposed to be

[...]

However, Sligo has some excellent ones too:

W.B Yeats sculpture located outside the Ulster Bank (although it can divide opinion)
'Waiting on the shore' in Rosses Point

My favourite, and one of the least known is the 'Faoin Sceach' on the grounds on St. John's hospital, where the old famine workhouse & graveyard was located

http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/pages/SligoFamineMemorial.html

I quite like both of these. Regarding the Strandhill one, who says it has to "be" anything?

J Mysterio · 28-06-2017 11:23PM

What did the Romans ever do for us?!

rizzodun · 29-06-2017 12:23AM

Academic wrote: »

I quite like both of these. Regarding the Strandhill one, who says it has to "be" anything?

Maybe, I should have said, I don't understand what it's meant to portray, or message it's meant to convey.

Sure, it doesn't have to be anything, but to me it's two pieces of metal erected by the sea side for no apparent reason, and not very attractive in my opinion either.

Sometimes the message/meaning of a sculpture can help overlook the ugliness of it.

Academic · 29-06-2017 12:30AM

rizzodun wrote: »

Maybe, I should have said, I don't understand what it's meant to portray, or message it's meant to convey.

Sure, it doesn't have to be anything, but to me it's two pieces of metal erected by the sea side for no apparent reason, and not very attractive in my opinion either.

Sometimes the message/meaning of a sculpture can help overlook the ugliness of it.

Except not everyone will agree that it's "ugly." Like many I'm equally comfortable with representational, non-representational, and abstract art, which I suspect has much to do with our different reactions to the piece.

29-06-2017 12:30AM

J Mysterio wrote: »

What did the Romans ever do for us?!

Well without them we wouldn't have the phrase "when in Rome"

Life would be unbearable with this phrase

Dyr · 29-06-2017 12:53AM

Academic wrote: »

Except not everyone will agree that it's "ugly." Like many I'm equally comfortable with representational, non-representational, and abstract art, which I suspect has much to do with our different reactions to the piece.

Can it "be" ****e?

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redarmyblues · 29-06-2017 10:01AM

rizzodun wrote: »

There's a few crap ones in Sligo alright.

Strandhill - No idea what it's supposed to be

Along the Garavogue river
Some b.s. about 'planes' & 'lines' reflecting off the water yada yada.

Local story is that it was supposed to act as a nesting area for the local swans, even though the growth around it does a much better job, cannot see the point in it at all.
http://www.publicart.ie/main/directory/directory/view/linesplane-laruscygnus/fa284e5bc92108a1210d76d1fad5e00a/

However, Sligo has some excellent ones too:

W.B Yeats sculpture located outside the Ulster Bank (although it can divide opinion)
'Waiting on the shore' in Rosses Point

My favourite, and one of the least known is the 'Faoin Sceach' on the grounds on St. John's hospital, where the old famine workhouse & graveyard was located

http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/pages/SligoFamineMemorial.html

The one is Strandhill is meant to represent waves.

whisky_galore · 29-06-2017 10:37AM

redarmyblues wrote: »

The one is Strandhill is meant to represent waves.

Looks like a pair of Cubist turds to me.

rizzodun · 29-06-2017 11:54AM

redarmyblues wrote: »

The one is Strandhill is meant to represent waves.

Ah now I see.... actually, sorry, still dont!

:pac:

Dyr · 29-06-2017 12:01PM

rizzodun wrote: »

Ah now I see.... actually, sorry, still dont!

:pac:

Yer man could have looked at the sea to check what waves actually look like

Ireland's crappiest public art.

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