06 April 2022

re. Visible means of support (#5)


White With Wire Wheels aka W4 is the Title of a play by Jack Hibberd, first produced in 1967 at Melbourne University and published in Plays (1970, ed. Graeme Blundell). We didn't see that play, nor the poster until now, but early on we knew of and liked its Title.


In the early 1970s your correspondent exhibited several times at Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne. And also did occasional odd jobs there : minding the gallery, re-stretching and rehanging paintings for gallery clients, and before shows repainting the gallery's white hanging wires. 

White wires on white walls : With regular repaints, a painterly crust had accumulated, vulnerable to chipping and to re-exposing the dark metal core.

Theatre of the Attachments for Regard 
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
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