The Calling (McCann sculpture)

{{short description|Sculpture in Belfast, Northern Ireland}}

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| artist = Paddy McCann

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| type = public sculpture

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The Calling is an outdoor sculpture by Paddy McCann located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.{{cite book|title=Irish Arts Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAYWAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Irish Arts Review}} Located at the junction of Gordon Street and Dunbar Junction,{{cite web|title=Belfast Art Guide|url=http://www.inyourpocket.com/data/download/belfast_art_guide.pdf|website=inyourpocket.com|accessdate=21 June 2016}} it consists of a bright red stylised male human figure calling into the distance while standing on an ordinary chair atop an extended (and angled) piston-like arm. A similarly mounted blue female figure, opposite the first, calls back across the square.{{cite web |url=http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/urcdg-urban_regeneration/laganside/laganside-art/arttrail1.htm |title=Art Trail 1 - Laganside |publisher=www.dsdni.gov.uk |accessdate=2009-11-26 }} It was installed in 2003.{{cite book|title=The Architects' Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RV5NAAAAYAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Architectural Press Limited}}