Archive for April 2011
visiting Yorkshire Sculpture Park
I didn’t want to watch a wedding on TV, so to somewhere outdoors with art….. Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Surely, the most accessible modern and contemporary art venue in the UK. I went with six members of my family, some of whom were less interested in art than others. We did get some of the usual comments resembling “anyone could have done that” along with genuine surprise to find that certain pieces were actually exhibits. And just for a moment Arcadia, my favourite piece, took me by surprise. I mistook it for a real sign! (I don’t believe I am admitting to that, and it was only for moment).
Leo Fitzmaurice, Arcadia (one of a series scattered around YSP)
On the way back to the railway station my son said that he had become conditioned to seeing sculpture in with the landscape and was expecting to be surprised by an exhibit here and there on the journey. No exhibits, but lots of signs, none of them for Arcadia. I missed the sign for the railway station.
