http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: See Eduardo Paolozzi in Leith en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:45:02 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-322025 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:52:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 322025@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aye, saw the crane this morning. Well designed public space doesn't need art because it <em>is</em> art. Badly designed public space can't be saved by any means. </p> <p>That piece is worth about £10,000 as scrap copper. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-322022 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:24:40 +0000 HankChief 322022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS will be very excited - 2 of his passions combining...</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/famous-edinburgh-paolozzi-sculptures-come-back-home-after-tram-works-what-about-bronze-pigeons-and-sherlock-holmes-statue-1385011" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/famous-edinburgh-paolozzi-sculptures-come-back-home-after-tram-works-what-about-bronze-pigeons-and-sherlock-holmes-statue-1385011</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255912 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:14:44 +0000 gembo 255912@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just back from the True to Life exhibition at GMA2. One of the last paintings is a pile of rubble from blitz it is next to the mock up of Paolozzi's studio. Very similar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255898 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:57:15 +0000 Frenchy 255898@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They just moved 500+ feet in the wrong direction, so maybe an 8 year plan now? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255897 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:51:22 +0000 I were right about that saddle 255897@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>IWRATS' Anti-Paolozzi Army</em></p> <p>Liking this. Five year mission to move those things one foot every night until they're in the Braid Burn where they belong. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255896 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:50:54 +0000 Frenchy 255896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I do. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255895 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:48:17 +0000 amir 255895@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am looking forward to seeing the first cone - quite a climb<br /> @Frenchy my word - bike spotting now - yes - do you share the same shed? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255894 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:45:31 +0000 Frenchy 255894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They really are far more prominent now, aren't they? Which is probably a good thing, I suppose, even if it's just to help recruitment for @IWRATS's anti-Paolozzi army.</p> <p>@amir - is that your bike that has the brass bell and "go further" stem cap? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255893 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:41:21 +0000 earthowned 255893@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Since IWRATS has such a soft spot for Paolozzi I thought he'd like to see some of the non-bronze works we have been digitising at work:</p> <p><a href="http://uoeartandarchives.tumblr.com/post/144652910767/snailfootcar-paolozzi-in-the-digital-imaging">http://uoeartandarchives.tumblr.com/post/144652910767/snailfootcar-paolozzi-in-the-digital-imaging</a></p> <p>I particularly like the smashed up mosaics being stitched together digitally like a large jigsaw puzzle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255889 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:21:07 +0000 I were right about that saddle 255889@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>the two Paolozzi statues at KB have reappeared on plinths on the grassy bit in the middle (opposite to the library)</em></p> <p>Those things are the original source of my Paoloathing. I wrote a letter about them so long ago it was an actual letter.</p> <p>I'll get my revenge by triggering @steveo with mention of the Lairig an Laogh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-255883 Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:28:04 +0000 amir 255883@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Pleasing to see (isn't it IWRATS) that the two Paolozzi statues at KB have reappeared on plinths on the grassy bit in the middle (opposite to the library) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149283 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:36:54 +0000 I were right about that saddle 149283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My original Intervention was to cast a giant bronze Ugg boot around Paolozzi's foot. I ruled that out as impractical.</p> <p>Not only are Moores being nicked for scrap, they're being sold to fund municipalities;</p> <p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/moores-the-pity-fury-as-tower-hamlets-council-sells-draped-seated-woman-to-plug-budget-cuts-8297144.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/moores-the-pity-fury-as-tower-hamlets-council-sells-draped-seated-woman-to-plug-budget-cuts-8297144.html</a></p> <p>I'd guess the Paolozzis are safe due to <strike>no one wanting to buy them</strike> their being so well-loved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149282 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:31:12 +0000 chdot 149282@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Used to be quite common for one toenail to be 'coloured in', but I haven't noticed that for a while. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149281 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:22:46 +0000 gembo 149281@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks a bit like uberuce up the stepladder? Careful now in case it wobbles.</p> <p>Those Henry Moores done in Dumfries and Galloway are all getting nicked, tragically for scrap.</p> <p>No one tried that with a Paolozzi yet </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149280 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:22:14 +0000 I were right about that saddle 149280@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"That foot always makes me think of a woman painting her toenails with those foam sponge spreaders between them."</p> <p>Anyone up for an Intervention? I'll buy five litres of candy pink nail varnish and a pack of brushes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149254 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:22:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 149254@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I am an (the?) anti-Paolozzist and proud of it! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149253 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:18:34 +0000 Focus 149253@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>That foot always makes me think of a woman painting her toenails with those foam sponge spreaders between them.</p> <p>And with his connections with Leith, shouldn't it have been placed at "The Foot of the Walk"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149248 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:53:32 +0000 chdot 149248@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Another old white man making bronze lumps"</p> <p>Latterly, but he wasn't always old! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149244 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:43:09 +0000 I were right about that saddle 149244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The IBM of Scottish art. No one ever got fired for buying IBM...no one ever got their taste disparraged for commissioning Eduardo. Formulaic, bombastic, repetitive. Another old white man making bronze lumps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149242 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:41:11 +0000 kaputnik 149242@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Our office had a lot of lovely Paulozzi original edition prints up on the wall at one time, but they dissapeared into the corporate art collection at some point to be flogged off. We have bland company motivational advertising now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149237 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:25:50 +0000 chdot 149237@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Never heard of anyone going out of their way to see one of his pieces"</p> <p>You are not listening hard enough. </p> <p>Here's one I did earlier -</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=19473027@N00&amp;q=Paolozzi%20"><img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2170/1659993736_af1cdcebc5.jpg"></a></p> <p>(So long ago it was shot on film!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149232 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 12:05:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 149232@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oooh. Paolozzi. Over-rated. Happens to work in bronze so he got a load of big outdoor commissions. Punted by the SNGMA for a bit of token Scotch art. Never heard of anyone going out of their way to see one of his pieces.</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>I were right about that sculpture </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12603#post-149227 Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:53:17 +0000 chdot 149227@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/visual-arts/scots-artist-paolozzi-immortalised-in-shop-mural-1-3377613" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/arts/visual-arts/scots-artist-paolozzi-immortalised-in-shop-mural-1-3377613</a> </p>