<http://goo.gl/G8GPN> Giant 15ft blue cockerel rules the roost in Trafalgar Square as sculpture takes its place on fourth plinth <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html>
- Sculpture called Hahn/Cock by Katharina Fritsch will stay up for 18 months <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> - It was unveiled today by Fritsch and London mayor Boris Johnson<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> - The rooster - a symbol of France - stands in shadow of Nelson's Column <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> What would Lord Nelson say? A giant rooster - the symbol of France - has taken up a perch beneath the admiral's statue in Trafalgar Square, which celebrates Britain's 1805 defeat of Napoleon's armies. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> The 15.4ft fibreglass artwork took its place on the vacant Fourth Plinth today and will stay up for 18 months.<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> London's mayor Boris Johnson unveiled the ultramarine blue sculpture, named Hahn/Cock, today alongside German artist Katharina Fritsch. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> [image: A 15.4ft giant blue cockerel is the latest sculpture to take its place on the vacant Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square]<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> A 15.4ft giant blue cockerel is the latest sculpture to take its place on the vacant Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> [image: The sculpture, called Hahn/Cock, was unveiled by London mayor Boris Johnson, left, alongside its creator, German artists Katharina Fritsch, right] <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> The sculpture, called Hahn/Cock, was unveiled by London mayor Boris Johnson, left, alongside its creator, German artists Katharina Fritsch, right <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> 'I definitely never thought about the French thing. But it's a nice humorous side-effect to have something French in a place that celebrates victory over Napoleon,' Fritsch told The Guardian newspaper. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> She also said she hoped the double meaning in the work's name would appeal to the British sense of humour. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> 'I know they like to play games with language,' Fritsch said, adding that her sculpture mocked male posturing in a square full of military statues. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> Mr Johnson told BBC London: 'It is a ginormous blue Hahn Cock, as it's called.' <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> He also joked about David Cameron's plans to get internet providers to block pornography, saying: 'I think if you tried to Google it in the future, the Prime Minister would stop you from finding it.'<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> Local conservation group The Thorney Island Society objected to the sculpture and had tried to block its display.<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> 'It is unrelated to the context of Trafalgar Square and adds nothing to it but a feeble distraction,' its members wrote in a letter to Westminster City Council. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> [image: The rooster is painted in ultramarine blue and made of fibreglass]<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> The rooster is painted in ultramarine blue and made of fibreglass<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> [image: The large bird is a feathered friend for Trafalgar Square's famous pigeons] <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> The large bird is a feathered friend for Trafalgar Square's famous pigeons<http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> 'The only tenuous argument put forward is the artist’s dubious claim that the “cockerel is a symbol for regeneration, awakening and strength”. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> 'More to the point is that the artist boasts it is seen as “a rude interruption to the grey formal architecture of the square”. This is neither a happy nor pleasing criterion for the use of this most significant location.' <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> Fritsch said Hahn/Cock was a 'victory for feminism' in the square. <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> She told the Evening Standard: 'I'm a female sculptor. The man is the model. For thousands of years they've made pictures of us, the women. I've changed the role.' <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> [image: The statue was unveiled today on the Fourth Plinth outside the National Portrait Gallery] <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> The statue was unveiled today on the Fourth Plinth outside the National Portrait Gallery <http://www.funfunky.com/paintings-f63.html> <http://goo.gl/G8GPN>** <http://goo.gl/G8GPN> <http://goo.gl/G8GPN> <http://goo.gl/G8GPN> <http://goo.gl/G8GPN> *".... 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