But Mark Wallinger's wildly ambitious sculpture has been delayed repeatedly because of a lack of money.
Nearby was something impressive, the La Coste wine estate where Irish entrepreneur Paddy "Claridge's" McKillen has created a hugely ambitious sculpture park.
The most ambitious public sculptures, the finest architectural ensembles, the richest paintings are almost always produced by and for world powers.
Rosemary Harris stars in the 1984 drama as Miss Helen, an Afrikaner widow who earns the mistrust of her village when she begins filling her yard with ambitious, whimsical sculptures after the death of her husband.
If the human is absent from this opening gambit, any sense of our modern world remains starkly missing throughout this ambitious venture: sculptures from Michael Dean, Richard Deacon and Elisabeth Frink, among others, are variously totemic, mystical or organic in form.
(Johnson Kathy Ruttenbergg: 'Nature of the Beast' (through May 18) Combining human figures with the flora and fauna of the natural world, this artist's ambitious ceramic sculptures make her a force to contend with as a narrator and symbolist, a form maker and colorist.
The Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, unveiled one of the most ambitious and expensive sculptures in modern history when it installed in its vast ground-floor lobby A Matter of Time by American artist Richard Serra.
More recently his style has considerably evolved to encompass video, sculpture, and sound, such his deliriously ambitious DIY NASA sculpture project titled A Space Program (which he shared with us in a 2012 video for Motherboard).
These architectural arts in turn encouraged imaginative and ambitious forms in sculpture and painting.
An especially visible sign of the city's new confidence is an ambitious outdoor exhibition, "Sculpture 2000".
