(temporary, just off Brick Lane, Spitalfields)
I hadn’t realised how much of Christo’s work was about the migrant experience.
Everything this time looked like it was packed up and ready to go; either to be shipped in the mail or (just as likely) carried by hand or on a handcart.
JC’s shoes were so poignant in the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict, horrible rememberance of the Holocaust and also even if not sad poignant memory that Christo and Jean-Claude whoever they were loved each other even each others shoes and now they are dead.
Are they a monument?
How does the chosen site relate (or not) to the work - apart from being very interesting - and flattering to a high money audience? (the pram is listed at half a million pounds)
The pictures intentionally focus on five works of the 30 or so
Dolly - huge, heaving, improbable balance, like a big stomach
JCs shoes - intimacy, smallness, tracing
Wrapped Painting - erasure, anti image
Show Case - ironic, alluring, concealment, just a small inviting catch, consumer goods
Magazines - archive, repetition, ritual, ‘literary’ monument, transit
