Right at the heart of London's Hanover Square, there is a new sculpture installation entitled the Peace Head by Yoshitomo Nara. It is cast in bronze and painted in a crisp white hue, as a depiction of the Japanese artist's signature 'big-headed girls.' On the back of the sculpture is a dotted "PEACE" to push the overarching message.
The artist spent much of his youth growing up in a small town that is just north of Tokyo. He understood the world through music and talking about the artist, Yeewan Koon states “For Nara, finding a newly released or hard-to-find recording was part of the excitement of transgressing such geographical boundaries,” in the recent Phaidon Nara monograph.
Image Credit: Yoshitomo Nara
What's Driving This Trend
- Peace-centric Sculpture Installations
- Opportunities for artists to utilize their art as a medium for peace-centric messages through sculpture installations.
- Oversized Sculptures as Urban Landmarks
- Opportunities for cities to commission and showcase oversized sculptures as landmarks and tourist attractions.
- Artistic Signature Style in Public Art
- Opportunities for artists to include their signature style in public art installations as an identity representation and way of promoting their work.
Who This Affects Most
- Art
- Opportunities for artists and galleries to create and sell peace-centric sculptures for public display.
- Tourism
- Opportunities for tourism boards to use oversized sculptures as a way to attract visitors to cities and landmarks.
- Marketing and Advertising
- Opportunities for brands to commission public sculptures with a peace-centric message as part of their marketing and advertising campaigns.
