{"id":498,"date":"2025-11-25T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:51:00","slug":"the-story-behind-louise-giovanellis-dazzling-new-public-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind Louise Giovanelli\u2019s Dazzling New Public Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16807\/louise-giovanelli-white-cube-artist-interview-decades-public-sculpture-curtains?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467226.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Walking down the eastern end of the Strand in London, <\/span><strong>Louise Giovanelli<\/strong><span>\u2019s new public artwork appears like a mirage. St Mary le Strand, a 300-year-old baroque church designed by James Gibbs, has been transformed by the artist, with a vast trompe l\u2019oeil shimmering silver curtain attached to its side. Grand in scale and ambition, <\/span><strong>Decades<\/strong><span> is haunting in its strangeness, inviting questions around notions of worship, devotion andhellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16807\/louise-giovanelli-white-cube-artist-interview-decades-public-sculpture-curtains?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-105-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467220.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli - Decades - 2024\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-105-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467221.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli - Prairie - 2022\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-100-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467222.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli - Scala - 2024\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-128-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467223.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli - Stoa - 2024 (1)\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/117-105-2805-1870\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467225.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli - Vanitas - 2022\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-100-3000-2000\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/7\/467224.jpeg\" alt=\"Louise Giovanelli - Threadsoul - 2024\" \/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14442\/louise-giovanelli\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=the-story-behind-louise-giovanelli-s-dazzling-new-public-sculpture\">View Gallery (6 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking down the eastern end of the Strand in London, Louise Giovanelli\u2019s new public artwork appears like a mirage. St Mary le Strand, a 300-year-old baroque church designed by James Gibbs, has been transformed by the artist, with a vast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}