| ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL will have text projected on to it in November in artwork designed to tease out responses to the meaning of life. The “epic” project, “The Question Mark Inside”, was launched at the Cathedral yesterday.
It has been conceived by the artist Martin Firrell, whose projections in public spaces have included those for the Royal Opera House, London, the National Gallery, and the Houses of Parliament. He has been commissioned by the Chapter to mark the 300th anniversary of the topping-out of the Cathedral. The project begins on the internet. Mr Firrell wants it to “add up to an epic, funny, touching, exhaustive survey of all the possible meanings of life at the time of the building’s 300th anniversary”.
Text will be projected on to the dome, the Ludgate Hill elevation, and the Whispering Gallery. The Canon Treasurer, Canon Martin Warner, said: “It’s really building on our heritage of art: not simply communicating what we are about here in terms of representing Jesus Christ to the world today, but also setting up a conversation with people for whom Christian faith is something unknown and unexplored.”
St Paul’s is exploring the wider use of art in in a number of ways, from a G. F. Watts exhibition later in the year to installations by Bill Viola planned for 2009. It is confident of attracting sponsorship for the project, to be previewed at the Lord Mayor’s Show. |
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