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Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for London’s Trafalgar Square #176461943
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Michael Rakowitz Recreates a Sculpture Destroyed by ISIS for Londonââ¬â¢s Trafalgar Square. The latest installation of contemporary public art on Trafalgar Squareââ¬â¢s fourth plinth is the most urgent-feeling, moving, and overtly political plinth commission to date. Unveiled on March 28, Michael Rakowitzââ¬â¢s ââ¬ÅThe Invisible Enemy Should Not Existââ¬Â 2018 is a recreation of one of the stone statues ââ¬â called a lamassu ââ¬â resembling a winged bull with human features, which guarded the gates of the ancient city of Nineveh. In 2015, ISIS militants filmed themselves drilling into the face of the 700 BCE sculpture
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