{"id":166018,"date":"2010-01-11T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-2400733118117295257"},"modified":"2010-01-11T05:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:37:21","slug":"misc-guilty-secret-inspires-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/166018","title":{"rendered":"Misc: Guilty secret inspires art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph, UK<\/a> (Roya Nikkhah)<\/p>\n

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British artist Andy Holden is to reveal how he stole a piece of the Egypt pyramids in a new exhibition at the Tate Britain in London.<\/p>\n

The artist’s guilty secret began with a seemingly innocent trip to Egypt.<\/p>\n

Accompanying his father, who was there on business, Andy, then 12, was taken to the Great Pyramid of Giza: the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still surviving \u2013 relatively intact \u2013 and the oldest and largest of the pyramids at the Giza Necropolis.<\/p>\n

“When we arrived at the pyramids, unthinkingly I broke off a lump of stone from the side of the Great Pyramid in Giza,” said Mr Holden. “I got home and put it on a shelf in my room alongside a collection of other souvenirs I had as a kid, but when my parents found out, they were furious and it ended up becoming this terrible guilt object.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t tell anyone else what I had done, but it had been haunting me in the last few years, so I thought I’d try to undo the guilt by travelling back to Egypt and putting it back in its original spot.”<\/p>\n

“Consumed” by guilt, Mr Holden’s attempts at reparation didn’t end there: he also created a “colossal” replica of the rock. The sculpture is now featuring in a new exhibition at Tate Britain in London.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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