Feb 2000
Dear PMers,
February in Germany - we should be in the grip of winter, but it simply hasn´t arrived (yet?). Mostly it´s just a bit wet and a bit cold (Norsewear socks appeared on my birthday - thanks Mum). I had planned a winter landscape series which might have to wait till next winter now. This may turn out to be the warmest winter on record here.
At the moment I´m quite busy with a "Workers" series, at a big German railway crane factory (oddly, it´s the factory I live in!). The Kirow company has established a tradition of supporting artists - not only have they given me a room, and complete freedom to make portraits of their employees (those who remained after the end of the GDR), they have also sponsored my project rather generously. Last week I spotted a large Rauschenberg work in the office foyer, apparently commissioned by the company (can´t imagine what they paid for that!).
Seen several excellent shows recently: Tina Barney´s candid family photographs in huge colour, and a group show of some of the world´s best figure photographers including Jan Saudek and Jean-Loup Sieff.
Two more invitations and a deal for a calender have surfaced in the last week.
April in Prague...
Dean