Léo Caillard dresses Bush House statues for The Classical Now
20 March 2018//
Posted in Strandlines and tagged with Bush House, Léo Caillard, Malvina Hoffman, statues
Paris-based artist Léo Caillard, known for styling classical statues in contemporary attire, has dressed the two figures above the grand travertine marble entrance to Bush House as hipsters. Made by American artist Malvina Hoffman in 1925 to symbolise the friendship between Britain and America, the statues were each hewn from a 20-ton piece of stone.
Caillard has labelled the performance To the Friendship of the Classical and the Contemporary, adapting his title from the inscription beneath the statues (‘To the friendship of English speaking peoples’).
