Big Suit

As in so many US Cities on this trip, we have seen lots of sculpture in St Louis today. This blip, in the City Garden, is by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm and, according to the leaflet explaining two dozen sculptures:

plays with our perception of volume, one of the basic elements of sculpture, by creating an outer shell of cast aluminium that defines the mass we imagine inside the pink suit. Through the use of unexpected colour and monumental scale the artist provides a powerful commentary on fragility of the individual and the way the material world shapes our self-image.

Other sculptures, such as Eros Bandato (Eros Bound) by Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraj, were also dramatic against the backdrop of the grand public buildings of central St Louis.