Meijer Sculpture Gardens

Title

Meijer Sculpture Gardens

Publisher

Lawrence Technological University

Date Created

June 8, 2017

Alternative Title or Name

Listening to History

Creator

Woodrow, Bill

Creator2

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photograph)

Creator Nationality

British (modern)

Work Type

Visual Works

Date

1995, cast 2001

Work Location

Michigan (state)
Grand Rapids (inhabited place)

Style/Period

Modern (style or period)

Subject

public sculpture
human figures (visual works)

Description

View of sculpture of human head with book tied to the side of the head with a blind fold, by Bill Woodrow at the Meijer Sculpture Gardens in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "Listening to History, also featured the head and the book, bound together so that the rope also made a blindfold for the eyes of the head. Put that all together, and what does it mean? Well, to Woodrow himself, "I suppose very simplistically, that although all this knowledge exists, we still make mistakes. And we still seem to be governed by underlying principles of life, to do with power and the need to conquer things. What's called progress doesn't necessarily mean that to me. "But the imagery is open-ended. "There is no one set truth or meaning to the work. I know what I'm thinking about while I'm making it, and I am discovering new things all the time. That's why I'm making it, to discover what I'm thinking, in a sense. That's what other people will have to do when they look at it. They'll all approach it from different points of view, they won't all get the same story."--"A place among heroes" by Martin Gayford in the Telegraph website, 29 Feb 2000.

Material/Medium

bronze (metal)

Reproduction Type

jpeg

ID Number

MSG-038

Files

MSG-038.JPG
Date Added
June 5, 2017
Collection
LTU Digital Images
Item Type
VRA Core
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Citation
“Meijer Sculpture Gardens,” LTU Digital Images, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/17087.