Hensel’s plinth is all that’s wanted
British sculptor David Hensel thought the opportunity to exhibit at the Royal Academy’s prestigious summer exhibition in London would send his career soaring.
Instead, he was bemused to find that his laughing human head has been left out of the exhibit. All that is on display is its plinth.
Officials said Hensel submitted the pieces separately -- and they had preferred the plinth. “The base was thought to have merit and accepted,” the Royal Academy said in a statement.
The head, which is carved from jesmonite, took Hensel two months to create. The plinth, cut from an old mortuary slab, took one day.
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