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Sculptures begin to arrive for Crucible at Gloucester Cathedral
Sculptures begin to arrive for Crucible at Gloucester Cathedral
23rd August 2010
The first sculptures have started to arrive for Crucible at Gloucester
Cathedral.
The works team at the Cathedral are still clearing up from the highly
successful Three Choirs Festival, so lorries taking away seating,
staging and lighting units are jostling for position with lorries and
fork lift trucks bringing in dozens of artworks from all over the
country.
The curators from Gallery Pangolin and the foundry team are on hand to
check the safe delivery of the sculptures and to finalise the positions
of all the pieces.
"We have to see each piece in its planned location before we can sign it
off," explains Claude Koenig, one of the directors of Pangolin. "What
works on paper may not work when we see the actual piece on site."
The first pieces to arrive are the smaller works and those to be placed
in the precincts. Damien Hirst's St Bartholomew, Exquisite Pain will
arrive in time for St Bartholomew's Day on Tuesday 24 August. On that
day too, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's monumental work Vulcan will arrive, as
will David Mach's Calvary made from thousands of coathangers.
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