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Edible Aircraft
Nice to see in these days of austerity that the Tate Modern artists can still exhibit
massive installations that must cost the taxpayer thousands.(Why is it that every
time I say the word installation I see a figure doing the inverted comma finger sign?)
The
latest contribution is from Fiona Banner who has exhibited two RAF fighters. A Harrier
is hung by its tail having been covered by feather motifs. It is meant to represent
a huge game bird hanging in the larder. Unfortunately, when you follow the thought
process through a Harrier is only marginally more edible than its duralumin partner.
Unfortunately for poor Ms Banner the RAF would never countenance buying a Boeing
Partridge or an Avro Pheasant (though I think there was a Snipe once). Our cat enjoys
eating tiger moths though I think the Shuttleworth collection may have some objections
there. Interestingly, when Jeremy Clarkson put an English Electric Lightning in his
front garden, it was removed by the local authorities as an eyesore…. so beauty must
be in the eye of the beholder.
When I was a member of the Guild of Aviation Artists,
they would often go through terrible angst as to what type of aeroplane painting
represents 'real art' perhaps Ms Banner could show them the way. I would nominate
her for membership though I fear she would be rejected because her work is too representative,
anyway, the Guild would have to get an exhibition venue bigger than the Mall Galleries...
Footnote;
A professional artist colleague recently visited the Tate modern and was seriously
unimpressed with the show until he happened to stumble into a side room which had
on display an interesting collection of modern tools, a set of steps and a workbench.
After commenting to a curator that this was the best exhibit he’d seen he was taken
aside and informed that the room was closed and was currently being decorated in
preparation for a new exhibit!
His comments as he left over the millennium bridge
was that he wished the ‘E’ would fall off of the word Tate!
Tims Top Tip for cooking
birds of prey
(1) Take one oven ready Harrier and a brick. Place both in oven at gas
mark 5.
(2) Keep checking brick
(3) When brick is tender, eat Harrier
