Autumn is finally in the air in Venice! Although it is still boiling hot and I only really need to wear a jumper on the way to work!
Unfortunately this change in season meant that I got my usual migraine L Luckily I had my pills with me so I managed to stop it before it got too bad.
I was guarding in TES this morning and some of the works really did not help with my blurry vision/really bad headache. These in particular:
Carlo Alfano
This isn't the exact one at the PGC because I couldn't find a good picture of it but 'No. 80' (1973) looks pretty similar to this. It's black with loads of white numbers on it written really small and it always hurts my eyes trying to read it.
Strobe Series / Futurist: Dogon Leash (For Balla) by John Baldessari 1975
I love this series of photographs but today it was not my friend.
Untitled (Zerorose) by Pier Paolo Calzolari 1970
Florescent lights plus "Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero..." Need I say more?
This afternoon I was on Imbustamento duty which means putting things in envelopes. People in the office asked me what imbustamento was translated in to English but I said that we don’t have a word for this (as far as I know) and they found it really strange that we haven’t felt the need to name this highly important activity.
So I had to stick addresses on to envelopes and then put an invitation inside for the opening of the next temporary exhibition. I had to do about 300 of these.
This may sound rather boring to you but the invites were going to people like Yoko Ono, Anish Kapoor and to just about every newspaper editor around the world. There was also one addressed to Lord Palumbo which I thought was a made up name but Google tells me that he is actually quite famous.
Tomorrow is my first Peggy talk. Wish me luck!
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