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Work No.700 by Martin Creed: It's a small girder on top of a large girder.

Selling it a bit short there, your photos clearly show it's a small girder on top of a medium girder on top of a large girder!
That girder just looks like a derivative of Richard Serra's work. And equally underwhelming.
Great write up. How do you find these things!
you missed one out [link to Google Streetview]

the granddad of east london Meridian street art
That weird trio of girders: I did wonder for a moment whether the cross sections of each were the 'Golden ratio' [approx. 1.618]of one another, from the smallest up of course. Clearly they are not, so I guess like your first two postings I am significantly underwhelmed. What is it that makes pseud things like this allegedly represent some deep unfathomable example of modern art? Let's have another world war and a call to melt down spare metal. At least last time the saucepans sacrificed were useful.
Apparently it really is just two girders.

Work No. 700, 2007
Steel I-beams
145.4 x 29.4 x 1200.2 cm
57 1/4 x 11 5/8 x 472 1/2 in

From the website which you link:

Hauser & Wirth continues its outdoor sculpture programme with Martin Creed’s ‘Work No. 700’ (2007), three progressively slimmer steel I-beams balanced on top of each other. The rusted steel I-beams are twelve metres long and neatly stacked, discarding their previous functionality to form a whole in keeping with Creed’s distinctive ‘artistic logic’. .....
Oh please DG, you go. After all, it is your motto to go places that we'd never visit so that we truly don't have to visit them.
Totally underwhelmed by the girders, and several other 'sculptures'. Thanks, DG, for walking the Line for us. I shan't be doing so either.
Well, I was inspired by this blog to walk it today, and found it really worthwhile (if confusing in places to follow).

It's great that Cody Dock is now open all week too. There's a lot going on there. Incidentally, they gave me a 'Grow Wild' seed kit - perhaps that was the rumoured freebie.










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