\n An application lodged by the university would see Michael Kenny\u2019s work Original Sin installed in the campus grounds between Derwent College and Heslington Hall.\n<\/p>\n
\n The gifting of the work to the university has been arranged by Brian Falconbridge, a sculptor and a trustee of the late artist\u2019s estate.\n<\/p>\n
\n Plans stated the brutalist ethos of the piece by a highly-regarded British sculptor would reflect the modernist features of the Derwent College building.\n<\/p>\n
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\n The university\u2019s application, lodged with York Council, stated the piece would be made up of three elements each made of Portland stone.\n<\/p>\n
\n One is a semi-circle with a small indent on flat side at the top and another is a triangle with two rounded edges at the base.\n<\/p>\n
\n The third is an upright rectange with a circular top.\n<\/p>\n
\n Plans stated the tallest element, the rectangle, would be around 1.2 metres high.\n<\/p>\n
\n The work has previously been exhibited outside The Economist Buildings in London and it was also shown as part of a contemporary dance performance.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kenny\u2019s work is characterised by abstract, figurative and symbolic forms with features which are sensitive to their setting and material.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sculptures by the artist often deal with isolation in the human condition and feature abstract or depersonalised shapes, along with those of reclining female figures.\n<\/p>\n
\n The proposed location of Michael Kenny’s Original Sin sculpture, between Block B of Derwent College and Heslington Hall at the University of York. Picture is from Google Street View\n<\/p>\n
\n One of his works, On Strange and Distant Islands, was a relief which spanned above the eastern portal of London\u2019s Limehouse Link tunnel.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other pieces were influenced by biblical themes.\n<\/p>\n
\n His last major series of drawings, The Stations of The Cross, featured a modern reimagining of Jesus Christ\u2019s Passion across 14 mixed-media pieces.\n<\/p>\n
\n The artist was born in 1941 and studied at the Liverpool College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was made a Royal Academician in 1986 and went on to take a number of public commissions and was head of Goldsmiths College\u2019s Department of Fine Arts.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kenny died in 1999 and is buried in London\u2019s Highgate Cemetery.\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Falconbridge, who has arranged the gifting of the sculpture, was also formely the head of Goldsmith\u2019s Department of Fine Arts.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was also formerly president of the Royal Society of Sculptors.\n<\/p>\n
\n The University of York\u2019s plans for displaying his sculpture stated it was a carefully considered intervention that would respond well to the buildings and landscape around it.\n<\/p>\n
\n Plans stated: \u201cOriginal Sin is a sculptural work by Michael Kenny, a highly-regarded British sculptor known for his contribution to twentieth-century public art and architectural sculpture.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe sculpture\u2019s brutalist qualities\u2014clarity of form, material truth, and absence of ornament\u2014respond directly to the architectural language of Block B of Derwent College while providing a considered counterpoint to the historic formality of Heslington Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An application lodged by the university would see Michael Kenny\u2019s work Original Sin installed in the campus grounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-426930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}