example of minimalist art.
“It’s a quirky little piece [without the head],” he told The Times. “We were quite puzzled by it and that’s why we liked it.”
No one noticed the error until Hensel, a 64-year-old sculptor and jeweller based in East Grinstead, Surrey, visited the gallery last Friday during a preview exhibition for friends of the Academy.
“I was very excited about going to London to see my sculpture on display, but I walked all the way round the gallery looking for it and couldn’t find it,” he said.
“Eventually, I saw just the base on a shelf with the piece of wood that was meant to keep the head in place on it, which looks like a bone.”
Sadly there’s no picture online, but the sculpture itself is in fact an accomplished and effective piece of art – and therefore clearly of little interest to the Royal Academicians.
Update: see the sculpture and plinth here (thanks Dom)
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