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The giant fox returns thanks to the birds
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DOOMED for destruction two years ago, a giant sculpture is making a comeback in Jing’an on Saturday — and it’s all thanks to birds breeding.
“Urban Fox,” the star attraction of the last biennale sculpture exhibition will return to Jing’an Sculpture Park, with “new lively contents,” it was announced at a press conference yesterday.
The metal-and-straw creation, 7 meters high and 8 meters wide, should have been pulled down two years ago. But it survived because birds found the fox made for an ideal place to settle down. So far, there are about 100 nests inside the fox sculpture.
This summer, the sculpture’s creator Alex Rinsler, flew to Shanghai to renovate his work in a workshop in Fengxian District — building more nests, cleaning it up, and placing cameras to record the birds.
The “Urban Fox” will be reassembled this Saturday, and open to the public on September 20, when the two-month Jing’an International Sculpture Project begins.
A documentary on the “Urban Fox” birds will be played on a huge screen in the sculpture park at the Shanghai Natural History Museum.
Besides Rinsler’s fox, about 300 pieces by 24 artists from seven countries and regions will be on show, mostly in the sculpture park, and the rest in Daning Park and McaM contemporary art museum.
Steve Tobin, described as a master of materials, is one of the big names in this year’s exhibition. Two of his prominent pieces, made out of the roots of trees destroyed in the 9/11 attacks in the United States 15 years ago, will be transported from New York to Shanghai.
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