Guilt becomes an inspiration for art piece featured at the Tate
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When Andy Holden was 12, he broke and stole a chunk of the Great Pyramid of Giza during a visit to Egypt with his father, who was there on business.
The guilt kept creeping up until it it became so unbearable that Holden, now an sculptor, had to do something positive to raise awareness of the unspeakable act he committed thirteen years ago.
From January to April 2010, the Tate Gallery will be showcasing Andy Holden’s Pyramid Piece 2009, a vastly enlarged replica of the small Egyptian stone fragment he stole and kept as a souvenir until 2008, created from knitted yarn and foam over a steel support. It will be on display alongside a companion film work, Return of the Pyramid Piece 2008, an amateur video documenting his mission of placing the stone in the same place where he retrieved it.
According to the information released by the Press Office at the Tate, “The scale of the resulting work, Pyramid Piece 2009, seeks to convey the wide-eyed, awestruck feeling that Holden experienced during his first encounter with the pyramids. The laborious, repetitive process of knitting could also be seen as an absurd work of penance for the artist’s theft, or even as a scaled-down recreation of the mass labour it took to build the pyramids in the first place, with each woollen stitch or block of stone charting the time it took to construct the whole.”
Click here to see a picture of the artwork.
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