Iron:Man
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Iron:Man is a statue by Antony Gormley, in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. The statue is tall, including the feet which are buried beneath the pavement, and weighs . The statue leans 7.5° backwards and 5° to its left. It is said by the sculptor to represent the traditional skills of Birmingham and the Black Country practised during the Industrial Revolution.
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Iron:Man is a statue by Antony Gormley, in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. The statue is tall, including the feet which are buried beneath the pavement, and weighs . The statue leans 7.5° backwards and 5° to its left. It is said by the sculptor to represent the traditional skills of Birmingham and the Black Country practised during the Industrial Revolution.
Cast at Bradley and Fosters Castings (now Firth Rixson Castings) in Willenhall, it was erected in 1993 and was a gift to the City from the Trustee Savings Bank, being erected outside the former Head Post Office, which was then their headquarters. It was originally named Untitled, but gained the nickname Iron Man, which Gormley requested be changed to Iron:Man and which became the official name for it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Iron:Man” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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