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Last June, this man taking a leisurely bike ride in London's Hampstead Heath Hampstead Heath (locally known as "The Heath") is a public open space in the north of London.  was dwarfed by a giant table-and-chair sculpture. Italian artist Giancarlo Neri Giancarlo Neri is a sculptor born in Naples.

At one time he played professional soccer for the New York Apollo of the American Soccer League.

Perhaps his best known work is The Writer
 constructed the 9 meter (30 foot)-high sculpture--called "The Writer"--with six tons of steel, 1,000 pounds of wood, 200 gallons of paint, and hundreds of nuts and bolts nuts and bolts
pl.n. Slang
The basic working components or practical aspects: "[proposing]
. Ned installed his colossal creation in Hampstead Heath because the area has historically been home for many famous writers, including poet John Keats and novelist George Orwell Noun 1. George Orwell - imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950)
Eric Arthur Blair, Eric Blair, Orwell
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Title Annotation:Activities & Oddities; giant sculptures
Publication:Science World
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Oct 24, 2005
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