The next two commissions for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square will include a bronze figure of a boy on a rocking horse by artists Elmgreen & Dragset and a large ultramarine cockerel (above, in case you missed it) by Katharina Fritsch...
Berlin and London-based artists Elmgreen & Dragset will unveil their sculpture, Powerless Structure, Fig. 101 in 2012; while Fritsch's sculpture, Hahn/Cock, will appear in 2013.
The German artist is well known for her dense, richly coloured pieces and the cockerel apparently references the animal motifs that appear in modernist art and symbolizes regeneration, awakening and strength.
I personally am not a fan of the cockerel sculpture, I do not think that the cockerel represents anything that the artist is claiming it to and I am adamant that the sculpture is neither aesthetically pleasing or worthy of being showcased in Trafalgar Square (although worse pieces of art have been put on the plinths in the past).
