Devinette
July 16, 2008
Devinette : pourquoi la statue de Mr LaTrobe est elle a l’envers sur le campus de LaTrobe University?
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July 16, 2008
Devinette : pourquoi la statue de Mr LaTrobe est elle a l’envers sur le campus de LaTrobe University?
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July 19th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Intéressant, je pensais au départ que c’était peut-être pour le rattacher à l’hémisphère nord duquel il est original, mais j’ai trouvé l’explication :
Sculptor turns Victorian visionary on head
March 21, 2007
UNIVERSITIES should be places where ideas are turned on their heads - to get a fresh perspective, sculptor Charles Robb says.
Hence his upside-down statue of Charles La Trobe (1801-1875), Victoria’s first lieutenant-governor, in the heart of the Bundoora campus at La Trobe University.
But not everyone is impressed.
“It’s putting a great man upside down, where he doesn’t belong,” Pam La Trobe, a South Australian descendant, said. “It makes you kind of wonder why they have done it.”
When Dianne Reilly, secretary of the La Trobe Society, first heard of her hero’s inversion, she telephoned Robb in Brisbane to berate him as a disrespectful Queenslander.
“He explained that he was from Melbourne and that he believed it was a disgrace that such a visionary had never been honoured before - so that took the wind out of my sails,” Dr Reilly said. ……
Robb, who inverted La Trobe at his own expense, donated Landmark to the university that bears his name. It was unveiled earlier this month.
“It’s the one work on our campus that has generated debate,” Vincent Alessi, curator at La Trobe, said.
“Most people ask why is it upside down. Is it disrespectful? Is it us taking the piss out of ourselves?”
July 20th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Bravo au Erwin Winner pour cette reponse documentee!
J’avais entendu dire que c’etait lie a la grogne de certains universitaires concernant des budgets manquants… mais si c’est l’artiste qui le dit c’est vrai!
On es pas trop mauvais non plus a l’INT pour avoir des perspectives inversees ou nouvelles, et sans statue!
October 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Hello.
The images were released to celebrate the arrival on Monday of Emma Tallulah, the couple’s third daughter.
Bye.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
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