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Londoners and art world professionals gave the thumbs up for David Shrigley’s new public art commission standing on the Fourth Plinth, which was unveiled today in Trafalgar Square in the heart of London (29 September). The seven-metre-high piece, entitled Really Good, is an outlandishly long thumb cast in bronze with the same dark patina as the other classic statues in the square.Shrigley, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2013, hopes that the gesture will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Things considered “bad, such as the economy, the weather and society will benefit from a change of consensus towards positivity”, he says.

Gabriele Finaldi, the director of the National Gallery, welcomed the new addition. “It’s very impressive, I can see it from my office window,” he says. Earlier this year, he told The Art Newspaper that “the Fourth Plinth is a brilliant way to make art connect with contemporary people.”

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