Clarence Shandon, undertakes a whirlwind tour of the classics. From carousing with Robin Hood to crossing swords with the Green Knight and stealing a ride on Huck Finn's raft, our traveler, A. This rollicking adventure begins with a shipwreck on an island where notable characters of literature, history, and folklore coexist - Hamlet and Oedipus, Don Quixote and Doctor Faustus, Becky Sharp and Daniel Boone. Search: Aleksandra Mir / Freddie on the Plinth.Join an unlikely hero as he watches Moby-Dick sink the Pequod, dodges cannibals on Robinson Crusoe's island, raises a glass with Beowulf, and literally goes to Hell and back. This project is published as en e-book / print-on-demand by Retrospective Press and available in English and Spanish on Amazon. This would honour both Freddie Mercury’s and Irena Sedlecka’s artistic legacies, an exploration of the connections between Socialist Realism and glam rock, and a channel for love through the celebration and expression of life It has since become a site of pilgrimage for fans from all over the world who gather there every year to mark Freddie’s birthdayįreddie on the Plinth is also an independent, unsolicited proposal to bring the statue of Freddie Mercury back to London, on loan from the city of Montreux for one year to place it on the empty 4 th plinth in Trafalgar Square. So the statue, with its bursting energy and urban soul was placed facing the quiet and calm waters of Lake Geneva. Instead, the work was offered to the city of Montreux, Switzerland where the band kept a recording studio, where Freddie had found a retreat from the paparazzi and where the gift was welcomed with open arms. Numerous attempts to place the statue on public view elsewhere in London failed and a permanent home for it was never found. Facing the statue, it is as if you can hear the crowds screaming, the band playing and Freddie’s heart beating – a living spirit captured in bronze by a sculptor at the height of her powersĭespite the statue’s excellence, Freddie’s enormous contribution to music and the love of his many fans in the UK and worldwide, it was rejected by Westminster Council amid rumours about homophobia, fear of AIDS and vandalism. The statue depicts him at the height of his rock star power, performing at Wembley Stadium and triumphantly gesturing towards an imaginary sea of mesmerized fans. It was in London, after Freddie’s death from AIDS in 1991, that she received the commission to create a larger-than-life memorial statue in bronze of the rock starĪt that time 20 years ago, the remaining members of Queen and the executors of Freddie’s estate decided to commission the memorializing bronze statue, as the whereabouts of Freddie’s ashes was a closely guarded secret.
As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Sedlecka was awarded the State Prize for excellence and thereafter created many Socialist Realist large-scale commissions before fleeing the Communist regime for England in 1966.
LONDON- Freddie on the Plinth is a tribute to two people with an unlikely but beautiful connection: the legendary rock star Freddie Mercury (b 1946 – d 1991) and a Czech sculptor called Irena Sedlecka (b 1928).
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