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The Spectacle

Jonathan Trayte2019

City of London Corporation

City of London Corporation
London, United Kingdom

The Spectacle is an ambitious site-specific installation comprised of seating, lighting and sculpture. Situated in a busy thoroughfare for pedestrians, these striking visual devices perform collectively as a meeting place, or somewhere to pause. Highly stylized colours and motifs are borrowed from the language of foodstuffs and confectionary. Glossy, synthetic ‘skins’ of paint give the work a colourful pop status, a chameleon appearance and an almost edible quality. The work is a coming together of natural forms and saccharine colours, generating a dynamic physical presence in the urban landscape.

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  • Title: The Spectacle
  • Creator: Jonathan Trayte
  • Date Created: 2019
  • Location: 100 Bishopsgate
  • Original Source: https://www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk/artworks/the-spectacle/
  • Rights: Copyright the artist, Photo: © Nick Turpin
  • Medium: Marble, granite, limestone, basalt, powder-coated steel, stainless steel, bronze, cast iron, concrete, reinforced plastics, glass, pigments, nylon, light fittings
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