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A Pound of Flesh for 50p
A Pound of Flesh for 50p, also known as Melting House, was a temporary outdoor sculpture by artist Alex Chinneck, located in London, United Kingdom. Part of the city's Merge Festival, the two-story house sculpture was constructed from 8,000 paraffin wax bricks and it was designed to melt with assistance from a heating apparatus over the course of the installation, It was displayed from September 26 to November 18, 2014, at 40 Southwark Street, SE1 9HP. the structure's
), a building located in Covent Garden designed to appear as if it floated in the air, and "A Pound of Flesh for 50p" (2014), a house on Southwark Street made from 7,500 paraffin wax bricks which slowly melted. The installation, "Pick Yourself Up and Pull Yourself Together" (2015) saw a Vauxhall Corsa suspended upside down in Southbank Centre car park. "The Guardian" called Chinneck a "master of architectural illusion".
Selected works.
- "Telling the Truth Through