Bronze Cow

dougee19

I have googled and googled but no luck!! There is a bronze cow outwide jervis shopping centre in wolfe tone square and I cannot find why it was made! Can anyone enlighten me?

stovelid

Wasn't it part of a series where they made loads of different cows with different colours and materials?

They were all over the world.

ceadaoin.

Yeah I think it is got to do with the 'Cow Parade' that happened a few years ago. There were loads of them around but most were made out of fibreglass or similar and painted. Maybe that one is there as a permanent exhibit?

Coriolanus

I remember there being a bit of scandal at the time. The exhibition had travelled the world with no problems, Rio and Jo'burg, violent as fúck, no problem. Dublin though, they were here less than 48 hours when the first one was vandalized.

I have a collection of photos from the Cow Parade, wasn't living in Dublin at the time, had an unemployed friend scouting the city to find all the cows for me, then I'd treat him to dinner at the weekend after he brought me to each of the ones he'd found to photograph! I recall they were mostly moved indoors into the Stephen's Green shopping centre and Jervis Street because of the vandalism.

not even wrong

Nevore wrote: »

I remember there being a bit of scandal at the time. The exhibition had travelled the world with no problems, Rio and Jo'burg, violent as fúck, no problem. Dublin though, they were here less than 48 hours when the first one was vandalized.

This is a myth. These sculptures were vandalised in the following cities:

• Edinburgh
• Burlington, Vermont
• Prague
• Geneva
• Manchester
• Austin, Texas

And probably more but I'm tired of googling now.