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
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
MSG-038
- Date Added
- June 5, 2017
- Collection
- LTU Digital Images
- Item Type
- VRA Core
- Tags
- bronzes, humans, public art, sculpture
- Citation
- “Meijer Sculpture Gardens,” LTU Digital Images, accessed March 28, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/17087.