BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6494@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20210716 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20211002 DTSTAMP:20210727T121943Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-city-centre-statues-re dressed/ SUMMARY:Liverpool: Liverpool City Centre: Statues Redressed DESCRIPTION:This summer\, Sky Arts will follow a collection of inspiring ar tists in a unique project as they creatively reimagine some of Liverpool ’s most iconic statues for Statues Redressed\, giving them a whole new l ook by dressing them up or creating art around them.\nThe documentary spec ial\, Statues Redressed\, coming to Sky Arts and streaming service NOW i n October\, will see the artists challenge and celebrate the role of these statues in modern times\, as part of the ongoing debate around who and wh at should be immortalised as public monuments.\nChosen because of its rich history\, Liverpool has the highest number of statues in the UK outside o f London\, including cultural icons like The Beatles through to sporting h eroes\, royalty\, and monuments depicting people linked to slavery and Bri tain’s colonial past.\nSome of the artists’ interventions range from t he celebratory to the confrontational\, and all will be thought-provoking. As each statue is gradually revealed to the public\, spectators will be p rompted to look again\, think again\, and question how we feel about the p ublic art that surrounds us. The artists involved in the project include m ajor artists and heavyweights in the public art scene\, as well as rising stars\, local artists and designers. The reimagined statues include:\n\n\n Artist Bob and Roberta Smith has boldly placed a ‘We will get through this with art’ banner underneath Jacob Epstein’s famous Liverpool Resu rgent sculpture\, reinforcing the statues original post-war message of hop e and giving it new meaning following the impact of the pandemic\n Design er Daniel Lismore gives the statue of Victorian statesman Benjamin Disrael i a whole new look with a Pride-themed Empress of India dress. The redress ing is a commentary on Disraeli’s reputation as a flamboyant dresser and a dandy who wrote love letters to men\, and on the fact that Victorian an ti-homosexuality laws were imposed by Britain across the Empire. In many e x-colonial countries today\, those laws still apply.\n Taya Hughes has dr essed statues of Christopher Columbus\, Captain Cook and Henry The Navigat or in elaborate Elizabethan-style ruffs made from fabrics associated with indigenous populations in Africa\, New Zealand and Australia as a commenta ry on these explorers\, who claimed to ‘discover’ these parts of the w orld.\n Designer Stephen Jones will soon be giving The Beatles statue out side the Museum of Liverpool a new look creating four spectacular hats\, e ach inspired by a different Beatles song to celebrate the iconic band.\n\n The project takes on many of the city’s most iconic statues\, from Peter Pan in Sefton Park (George Frampton\, 1928) to the imposing Queen Victori a memorial in Derby Square (CJ Allen\, 1906). Full details of all ‘redre ssings’ can be found at: www.statuesredressed.com\nStatues Redressed wi ll air on Sky Arts\, Freeview Channel 11\, and streaming service NOW this October.\n\n\n\nEVENT DATE: Friday 16th July – Friday 1st October 2021\ n\n\n\nLOCATION: Liverpool\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2021/07/statues-redressed.jpg LOCATION:Liverpool\, Water Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.406445;-2.992941 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Water Street\, Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Liverpool:geo:53.406 445,-2.992941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210328T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR