Mauro Perucchetti Sculpture

Mauro Perucchetti's monumental Jelly Baby Family sculpture, standing up to three metres high, is now installed at Marble Arch in central London and will remain there until April 2011. The family is made up of seven colourful members ranging in height from the father at three metres tall to the twins at 90cm high. Mauro's Jelly baby family embodies the unity of family and will be seen by thousands of Londoners everyday.

Mauro Perucchetti said: "12 years ago I created a body of work inspired by the dilemma between cloning and religion, and cloning and medical ethics. I decided to use the jelly baby as an impersonation of cloned mankind. I was trying to capture the ambiguity that could be present in a cloned being. On first glance, they seem very sweet, but from certain angles, they can look slightly sinister, especially on a large scale. In the current version, 'Jelly Baby Family 2010', they could easily embody the unity of family and the multicultural aspect of modern society that is so prevalent, especially in London and the world today.I am absolutely privileged and delighted that they will go in such a prominent position, and being opposite Speaker's Corner gives them a particularly symbolic value."

Jelly Babies 1 from Halcyon Gallery on Vimeo.