{"id":113416,"date":"2023-08-09T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/?p=113416"},"modified":"2023-08-09T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:51:03","slug":"uae-artist-shaikha-al-mazrous-sculpture-heads-to-medieval-gardens-in-the-uks-cornwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alowais.com\/en\/uae-artist-shaikha-al-mazrous-sculpture-heads-to-medieval-gardens-in-the-uks-cornwall\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE artist Shaikha Al Mazrou’s sculpture heads to medieval gardens in the UK’s Cornwall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After being displayed at Frieze London, the towering work has arrived in the British seaside county<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a far-off vista in the UK’s Cornwall, fluffy pillows are piled high on top of one another making a four-metre-tall stack. Though it seems precarious, the blustery Cornish wind doesn\u2019t ruffle any fabric or dislodge any cushions.<\/p>\n

As aficionados of Shaikha Al Mazrou\u2019s art might have guessed, the work is an illusion. The stack is made of fibreglass and resin, secured by an internal steel armature, and has been confounding and delighting visitors to Cornwall since it arrived late last month.<\/p>\n

Red Stack<\/i> first appeared at Frieze Sculpture<\/a>last year, the public exhibition of artworks that the Frieze fair hosts in Regent\u2019s Park, London. It is the largest sculpture that <\/b>Dubai artist Al Mazrou<\/a>, who teaches at NYU Abu Dhabi<\/a>, has made, and her second major foray into public artwork.<\/p>\n

Since then, Red Stack<\/i> has travelled 482km to the south-western tip of the UK, where it has now taken pride of place in the idiosyncratic, thoughtfully arrayed grounds of the Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.<\/p>\n

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Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens with a view on to the island of St Michael’s Mount, which houses a medieval castle and monastery. Photo: Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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