I have also been invited to rehang the Christchurch picture gallery
in Oxford. The reason that I was invited to do that was because
the historical pressure on Christchurch was so intense that they
didn't actually have the guts to rehang it themselves so I was
used as a kind of blunt instrument, as a kind of hired hand -
the artist as barbarian. It's quite a strange thing to go up to
an early Italian painting and unscrew it and take it off the wall
as if it was an Athena poster, and I spent a couple of weeks in
there doing just that. With the confidence that I got from that
I would
rehang it much better now.
At the moment I'm organising a travelling show for the Hayward
which is called 'Thinking Aloud' which is really about the provisional.
About the fact that maybe our shopping list is more interesting
than our dinners. That our desires on the back of envelopes arefar
closer to what we really want than what we get. This is Alec Isigonis
on the right, trying to work out how the suspension of the mini
should be, in 1956. |