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YouTube Abdicates Social Responsibility
http://mjjjusticeproject.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/youtubeabdicatessocailresponsibility/#comment-195
Please read article and PASS IT ON. Thanks.
Please read article and PASS IT ON. Thanks.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Michael Jackson sculpture at Premises Studios sparks ‘hate campaign’
Hackney music studio The Premises has been on the receiving end of ‘hate mail’ after they installed a Michael Jackson sculpture.
The controversial artwork – called Madonna and Child – depicts the moment in Berlin in 2002 when the King of Pop held his baby out of a window. True to the original incident, the life-size statue leans out of the building.
Now the Premises Studios has become the target of abusive emails from Jackson fans, who say the sculpture is an insult to their hero.
One described it as: “The most outrageous sick thing that could have ever gone on in the city of London.”
Viv Broughton, Chief Executive of the Premises Studios, insisted that the artwork would not be taken down: “The sculpture recreates a moment of high drama in music history. The fans turned him into a deity and he in turn offered them his son. Lots of people have come here to view it. Most people think it’s brilliant.”
Madonna and Child by Swedish artist Maria von Köhler is now showing, twenty feet up on the side of the Premises Studios.
http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2011/04/04/michael-jackson-sculpture-at-premises-studios-sparks-hate-campaign/
Michael Jackson arrives at The Premises
As regular visitors here may have already noticed, there is a new sculpture suspended twenty feet up on the side of our building. It’s a life-sized depiction of the moment in Berlin in 2002, when Michael Jackson dangled his baby out of the window. Intriguingly, it’s called Madonna and Child and it’s been installed in our office window. Swedish-born sculptor Maria von Köhler spent six months, first modelling it in clay then, from a plaster mould, it was cast in polyester resin and finished in acrylic and wax.
Various Jackson ‘fan-sites’ are already orchestrating a hate campaign against us (see blog comments below) thus illustrating the point that the sculpture is really about fan worship, about treating a singer like a deity.
Maria von Köhler has exhibited widely since she graduated with an MA from the Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2003. Her work is housed in collections worldwide, including The Zabludowicz Collection and The David Roberts Art Foundation, London. Von Köhler has held solo exhibitions at Seventeen, IMT and The Kiosk Project, London, as well as Seeline Gallery, Los Angeles and Galerie Lieser, Berlin. Other exhibition highlights include: When We Build Let Us Think We Build Forever, BALTIC, Gateshead; Larry’s Cocktails, Gagosian Gallery, London; National Geographic, Faggionato Fine Art, London; RightOn/Write Off, Chapman Fine Arts, London; Fresh, MOCA, Los Angeles; Selected Sculpture, Max Wigram Gallery, London.
209 Hackney Road London E2 8JL
Tel: 020 7729 7593 info@premisesstudios.com
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