Michael Jackson sculpture at Premises Studios sparks ‘hate campaign’

Maria von Köhler's Michael Jackson sculpture at the Premises Studios

Hackney music studio The Premises has been on the receiving end of ‘hate mail’ after they installed a Michael Jackson sculpture.

The controversial artwork – called Madonna and Child – depicts the moment in Berlin in 2002 when the King of Pop held his baby out of a window. True to the original incident, the life-size statue leans out of the building.

Now the Premises Studios has become the target of abusive emails from Jackson fans, who say the sculpture is an insult to their hero.

One described it as: “The most outrageous sick thing that could have ever gone on in the city of London.”

Viv Broughton, Chief Executive of the Premises Studios, insisted that the artwork would not be taken down: “The sculpture recreates a moment of high drama in music history. The fans turned him into a deity and he in turn offered them his son. Lots of people have come here to view it. Most people think it’s brilliant.”

Madonna and Child by Swedish artist Maria von Köhler is now showing, twenty feet up on the side of the Premises Studios.

Read the ongoing comments being made about the artwork on The Premises Studios website.