These aren’t the works, they’re plinths and things. This is day 2 of the install, which was December 17th.
You can see I’m running behind – it’s the 21st now and it’s been a busy few days in the lead-up to the exhibition, which opened on the 18th. It was a lovely evening: Martina, Petra and I were each there with our varying levels of German proficiency, but our works were all doing the talking on our behalf, and talking sideways amongst themselves too.
Since the exhibition opened I’ve had a couple of days let loose from the studio and exploring Austria, with a day in Salzburg and a day in Vienna. I was surprised to find myself writing lengthy notes about the use of perspective in paintings on the ceiling of the Salzburg cathedral, and how the neck-craning perspective of the viewer had been anticipated and accommodated at times successfully; at times less so. Thinking back to the video projection work I’d just installed in Linz, it struck me I could do with spending some time with paintings like these, learning more about how the spectator’s perspective has been accommodated in the surface of the painting historically. When I get back from Austria I’m going to dig out some writing by Michael Fried and have another look.
