The London List: Alex Chinneck’s life-size wax house in Bankside will gradually melt away to nothingThe London List

Posted in Art, London, London List
By Sam Bathe on 30 Oct 2014

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His second London installation in barely a month, Alex Chinneck’s “A Pound Of Flesh For 50p”, or The Melting House, is a two-storey building made almost entirely out of wax. Formed of 8,000 wax bricks, the house is part of Merge Festival and will gradually melt over it’s 30-day lifespan. Celebrating the history of an old candle making factory which was based in Bankside a couple of centuries ago, the Melting House is part of the annual Merge Festival and will be on display until November 18th.

A Pound Of Flesh For 50p (The Melting House), 40 Southwark Street, SE1 9HP
www.mergefestival.co.uk

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