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Thursday 8 February '07 (from Grizedale Arts Blog)
Park A More world
Spent the last week in Lausanne, somewhat nose to grindstone trying to turn a somewhat random pile of Grizedale material into an exhibition. It's always a tad tricky to get all the disparate things to hang together and in this case to stay hung. The Gallery was designed by Jean Giles Decousterd – an incredibly 70’s guy with his Mini and Michael Caine trench coat, the Italian Job theme tune kept playing in my head – ‘this is the self preservation society’ (well it was Switzerland). Jean Giles is more importantly also an incredibly interesting man, he made a fantastic proposal for Lawson Park, (see attachment).
Of course everyone was very nice and chic, Switzerland is always a nice place to visit. I think they were all a bit unsure of the exhibition, bemused, it is always hard to explain the whys and so on. It all seems so obvious to me but I have forgotten what the audience expectation of exhibitions and art is. So our, 'art ideas that are useful' mantra which underlies and really explains most things takes a bit of getting used to.
Topics:
- amphibians[1]
- architecture[1]
- Arnofini[1]
- building site[1]
- cats[1]
- celebrity[1]
- complaint[1]
- Culture Cumbria[1]
- diary[1]
- drystone walling[1]
- Egremont[1]
- exploited[1]
- Far West[1]
- film festivals[1]
- furness beekeepers[1]
- furniture[1]
- geodesians[1]
- geodesic dome[1]
- GSK[1]
- Happy Stacking 7[1]
- hay[1]
- jobs[1]
- Malcolm Wilson Rally[1]
- meadow[1]
- mice[1]
- migratory[1]
- myvillages[1]
- Narnia[1]
- NGS[1]
- Old Masters[1]
- Peter Hodgson[1]
- Peter Inman[1]
- Pope and Guthrie[1]
- public works[2]
- rawnsley[1]
- reactor[1]
- Royal Academy[1]
- rural[1]
- Ruskin[2]
- school[1]
- self-importance[1]
- Seven Samurai[1]
- skep[1]
- strawberries[1]
- ted taylforth[1]
- Toadball[1]
- toads[1]
- work[1]
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