Artist reproduces Alderney ‘Nazi execution site’ in London
by Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#69283)
Piers Secunda will tell story of bullet-damaged wall and forensic examination supporting theory
A dark chapter in the story of a tiny British island is to be depicted in a reproduction of a Nazi execution site created by an artist whose work explores the impact of destruction and violence.
Piers Secunda has taken a mould of a bullet-damaged wall, part of a Victorian fort on Alderney, one of the Channel Islands, from which he will make a cast to be exhibited in London next month.
Continue reading...