Trafalgar Square’s next FOURTH PLINTH commission is a quietly subversive work by Scandinavian artists Elmgreen & Dragset titled "The Horse and His Boy" to be unveiled this Thursday. Since the beginning of the Fourth Plinth art project in 2005, the works commissioned for the space have been willful provocations, designed to upset the square’s militaristic air. Now comes an image more innocent, and more subversive still: a young boy on a rocking horse. "We wanted to make an image that was a different depiction of masculinity from what you find in most public monuments. Men don’t have to be conquerors. Maybe you can be a hero in a different way, a more fragile way.”
