Sean Henry: Conflux

In a secular society, the folk who run UK cathedrals are racking their brains to find ways of dragging the punters back into the fold. Don't believe in God? How about contemporary art instead? Antony Gormley's Hellraiser in Canterbury Cathedral was the first to pop up this year (CLICK). Yesterday BBC News posted a slide show of Sean Henry's latest exhibition: Conflux: A Union of the Sacred and the Anonymous at Salisbury Cathedral (CLICK). Above is Henry's Man Lying on His Side (2000-2011). This depicts the common man. As polychrome sculptures go, it's rather good, but it becomes ridiculous, cheap and silly in the magnificent and incongruous setting of Salisbury Cathedral. Click the title link for more sculpture photos and a video.