Henry Moore Foundation to showcase public art proposals that never made it
Date uploaded: April 14, 2009
Art in Public Places: the archive of the Public Art Development Trust, at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, include the alternative Diana, Princess of Wales, memorial sculpture and scores of other detailed proposals.
Instead of the fountain that dribbled, tripped people up and sprouted green slime, Princess Diana might have been commemorated by three giant screens standing by the Serpentine in Hyde Park, showing line drawing animations and peaceful rippling water.
The artist Julian Opie's contribution to an international design competition for a fitting permanent memorial to Diana, whose death in Paris in 1997 plunged the nation into a orgy of public mourning, is one of the more startling visions in a remarkable archive which will soon be public for the first time.
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