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‘Wonderful news’ for UK sculptor
From:Shanghai Daily  |  2016-12-01 09:56

A copycat sculpture by Huangpu River was demolished yesterday.

The destroyed artefact was deemed to be a copy of “Timepiece,” a work created in 1973 by a renowned British artist.

The sculpture in Shanghai has been in the Dongchang Binjiang greenland for some 10 years, and there is no sign to indicate its designer or when it was created.

The demolition was scheduled to have taken place yesterday morning by the Shenjiang branch of Shanghai Real Estate Group, the management company of the greenland. But officials with the Pudong New Area Planning and Land Resources Administration said the action was delayed until yesterday afternoon because of space restrictions and the volume of traffic in the area.

The sculptor of the statue in Shanghai has not been revealed. The Shanghai Planning and Land Resources Administration said it did not find the registration information of the sculpture from existing records, while Shenjiang said the statue was already there when it began managing the green space.

Wendy Taylor, the British artist of “Timepiece,” which is sited by London’s Tower Bridge, said in an e-mail to Shanghai Daily yesterday morning that she was glad the demolition had taken place.

“Thank you very much for the wonderful news,” she said, adding she hoped the sculpture in Shanghai “had really been destroyed and not just been put somewhere else.”

Taylor had said earlier the statue was “almost an exact copy” of her 1973 work that functions as a giant equinoctial sundial.

She was informed by an art aficionado who came across the installation and e-mailed a photo of the Shanghai sculpture to her.

Taylor, who was born in 1945, said “Timepiece,” was created as a tribute to the dockworkers of London.

Her artworks can be seen throughout the United Kingdom in a range of locations such as museums, sculpture parks, airports, universities and local government complexes.

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