It's the Australian way, folks: place you on a pedestal, send you off to Venice as official Biennale artist, NSW goverment pays for major retrospective at the State Gallery and publishes book for the occasion, ABC screens documentary then they stick it to you when you're least expecting it.
I look forward to Edmund Capon and the curator being arrested for their part in the retrospective and the book, the Commonwealth arts minister responsible for the Biennale selection and owners of all bookshops carrying the AGNSW and Scalo books being burnt at the stake in Martin Place, with our priggish new PM lighting the match.
My only worry about Bill Henson is the archival quality of that black tape that he uses to hold his montages together.
Regards - Ross (sticking to landscapes!!) |