{"id":119985,"date":"2025-11-03T20:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/119985\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:30:15","slug":"fashion-designers-bronze-of-hugo-victor-unveiled-in-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/119985\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion designer&#8217;s bronze of Hugo Victor unveiled in Guernsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hugo was a campaigner against social injustice and capital punishment, and intervened in several cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Farhi said the exhibition had been about &#8220;us being in touch with our humanity which is exactly what Victor Hugo had been doing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she had decided to show the writer as younger than he had previously been portrayed, and she had worked from photographs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a freedom you have when the person is not sitting, you can express exactly what you feel about that person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is my perception of Victor Hugo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgjxlmj0jlo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed Victor Hugo Centre<\/a>, Larry Malcic, said the gift of the bust was &#8220;a fabulous moment for the centre and for the island&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;To be unveiling this major work of art on the 170th anniversary of Hugo&#8217;s arrival on the island is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the tribute of one great artist to another great artist,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo was a campaigner against social injustice and capital punishment, and intervened in several cases. Ms Farhi said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-119985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}