The 5 ton Broadgate Venus created by Fernando Botero placed here in Exchange Square in 1990. Bang in the middle of the business area. Does she represent the excesses of business or a comment on the size zero women one is more likely to see in this district?This is a Monday to Friday area. During the weekend nothing is open and the square is generally isolated.
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This sculpture is amazing !! I'd like to take photos too !
I just love this statue! and I have only been to that square on the weekend and it was usually empty!
Big is beautiful, so they say. Great photo, everything fits even down to the black wellie boots the guys are wearing.
Probably both. Though whoever commissioned it probably didn't mean it as either.
Botero's roundness looks fantastic among the geometric patterns of the buildings.
I love this photo! Great contrasts: dark & light, linear & curvilinear! Awesome! I'd like to think the statue is a commentary on the size and shape of women today...
I like Botero a lot and your picture is perfect.
wow that black and white pic is really amazing!
I like the way her curves contrast with the angles of the building. Also great to have the perspective of the two guys to see how large she really is.
Either message you described seems appropriate.
Great photo in b&w. Nice to see a curvy woman :)
wow! amazing picture!
Good pic, the B & W enhances it.
Another one of the Botero's piece. Always wonderful to look at them :-)
Wow, that's one large lady! It's good you included the two guys to show the scale of the statue. It's certainly very outstanding amongst the surrounding architecture.
I love this statue! Nice pic in the B&W too!
I had no idea this sculpture existed. I love the excess and lust and abundance of her. Quite sexy!
beautiful!
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I think she's designed to make people think. She seems like a sort of earth mother, doesn't she - still very much present despite the concrete and metal. Maybe she is saying that if left alone, the whole commercial development would revert to nature.
Worth visiting in order to scramble round and look at from all angles.
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