“You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until Its Gone” No.2
Simon Kennedy
“You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until Its Gone” No.2
Simon Kennedy
Reference
SAS0175_002
Year
2006
Dimensions (cm)
Height: 130
Length: 145
Depth: 145
Length: 145
Depth: 145
Materials
Acrylic Resin & Paint
Current Location
Glasgow
Suitable Locations for the Work
- Indoors
- Floor-based
- Freestanding
- On a plinth
- In a case
- Wall-mounted
Background, history, commissioner of the work
2006. Made in London.
2007. Part of installation “Naughty But Nice” B&B Gallery, Folkestone Kent.
2009. Exhibited, Ritterhof Space, Kreuzberg Berlin.
Featured in Cabaret show, Berlin Wintergarten.
2011. Solo exhibition “Scream” at The Icecreamists, Covent Garden, London.
Featured on German ZDF TV, ARTE channel.
Thematic/contextual information
The Ideas behind this sculpture was to attempt to reflect notions of human loss, on a universal level. A child eating an ice cream, dropping it and the sadness this brings. The sculpture also has a strong connotations to ideas of climate change and global warming. The cartoon nature and scale of the work seems to reach a main stream audience and communicates across different cultures and languages. This sculpture makes a perfect Instagram-able moment and is liked by children and adults alike.