Sandwich
Sandwich

© Sarah Lucas, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London. Image credit: Nick Turpin, courtesy of Sculpture in the City

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Sarah Lucas's recent large-scale sculpture, 'Sandwich', 2011–2020, stands in opposition to traditional public sculpture. Its horizontal configuration opposes veneration and pomposity through its prosaic absurdity and functional accessibility. Mining at themes of British culture, Lucas ambiguously transposes the humble sandwich on a monumental scale with a metaphoric and literal sense of hyperbole; simultaneously satirising and celebrating the commonplace foodstuff as a proletariat symbol. The material austerity of the work in concrete, elevates and inverts the object's ordinariness with irreverent humour.

Sculpture in the City

London

Title

Sandwich

Date

2011–2020

Medium

concrete

Measurements

H 60 x W 244 x D 190 cm

Accession number

EC2N_SITC_SAND

Acquisition method

on loan to Sculpture in the City, 2022–2023

Work type

Sculpture

Access

at all times

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London, Greater London England

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