Long Live Death

Formerly the artistic director of i-D magazine and creative director of Sleazenation magazine, Scott King’s artworks frequently reference his background in graphic design. Long Live Death belongs to a group of King’s pieces primarily concerned with the role of public art. Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North has been supplanted onto Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, London, thus uniting two famed British artistic landmarks. Presented by King in a postcard-like format, they represent different historic eras and geographic regions, combining to form a humorous comment on the role of public art as a government-driven means of urban regeneration. The work’s title perhaps reveals the artist’s scepticism about the effectiveness of such practice.
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