From: David Medalla
To: Reynolds
Oggetto: RE: Ingar Krauss ‘DAVAO’ – Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
Data: 30 aprile 2009 12:31:08 GMT+02:00

Dear Reynolds,
Ingar Krauss is a German photographer; her show is in a gallery in Paris. I love the photos she took in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines. Thank you for E mailing me the press release of her exhibition. I will forward this message and your E mail to various friends, including many London Biennale artists based in Paris.
Yesterday, I went to another brilliant exhibition of photos: those taken in London during the Swinging Sixties by Clay Perry. The opening yesterday of that show, in the gallery ‘england & co.’ at 216 Westbourne Grove, London W.11, was also an occasion for a gathering of my friends, both old and new. Guy Brett was there looking very dapper in his beret. Very dapper too was poet Hugo Williams, winner of the T.S. Eliot Poetry Award. Guy, Hugo and I used to have lunch daily at the Salisbury Pub on St. Martin’s Lane in the early 1960s. Also at that opening were: Hugo’s wife Hermine Demoriane ( Hermine owns and runs the Chateau de Sacy, a cultural centre in Picardy, France; Hermine’s mentor in tightrope walking is Philippe Petit, who walked between the twin towers at the World Trade Center, and is currently artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, where we spent a Happy Easter Sunday this year); performance artist par excellence Anne Bean (I gave her the greetings from your friend Donna the shaman-woman and jewelry designer); film-maker Anna Thew and her partner Martin; German artist Alma Tischler, who recently showed her paintings in a galllery near Zurich, Switzerland; Professor Michael Ashbury of the University of the Arts; American artist Liliane Lijn and her partner Stephen Weiss; English writer Christopher Walker (who worked with Paul Keeler and me at SIGNALS LONDON in the 1960s); singer & dancer Jill Drower (who was with the Exploding Galaxy, who will perform at the Whitechapel Gallery here in London this week); John Dunbar (director of the Indica Gallery; John is the partner of singer Marianne Faithfull; their handsome intelligient son Nicholas used to live in Brooklyn); Jamie Tapales-Oakes (who is organising the dialogue between Guy Brett and me at the Asia House in London later this month; Jamie’s son Mark is a very gifted young sculptor who spent some time in L.A. after his studies in Cambridge, England); Joan Boyle of the Boyle family; her husband Mark also showed at the Indica Gallery. In their home in London I partied with John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg in the early 1960s. Mark and Joan’s son Sebastian owns the Westbourne Tavern where many of us went for food & drinks last night after the ‘england & co.’ gallery closed for the evening. Jane England, owner of the gallery, curated a beautiful show of Clay Perry’s photographs. I think there is a website ‘england & co.’ in the internet; so perhaps you can google it. Also in the show is a beautiful kinetic art work with lights and moving crystal spheres by Liliane Lijn, with whom I exhibited in 1967 (that long ago) at the Indica Gallery. Clay Perry and his wife Maggie (who directs the arts festival in Marrakesh) invited me to stay in their elegant home in West London where we continued drinking wine and talking till nearly dawn today.
Marko Stepanov took me in his van from Bracknell to London yesterday. On the way to Westbourne Grove, we stopped by Wembley where Marko lives. At Wembley we bought some things from thrift stores there, including a pair of magic shoes which I will wear when I do my impromptu performance at the start of the Kurt Schwitters MERZBarn exhibition at the Royal College of Art in South Kensington, London, next Tuesday. After our forays in the charity shops, Marko and I had a lovely meal of masala dosa in an Indian restaurant.
I showed Marko and other people the book that Raoul put together of photographs of our exhibitions at MUSEUM MAN in Valparaiso, Chile. Everyone who saw the book loved your superb etchings and the Puki Parade. Please send Adam Nankervis in Berlin a copy of the book. He is looking forward to seeing it. I spoke to Adam on the phone yesterday. He is busy busy busy putting together, with the help of Martino Mergheri from Florence, the exhibition “Reliquaries of Empires Dust” at the Breznitsky Gallery in Berlin. I sent him two art works, both inspired by my sojourn in Brooklyn. I think Adam’s exhibition will be a defining point in the history of art today. I am sorry I will not be able to attend the opening in Berlin this Saturday.
I hope I can make it to Rome (for your show at Raffaella Losapio’s Gallery Studio.RA) and Venice (to see Mona Hatoum’s exhibition and Lello Lopez’s art works during the Biennale) this summer.
Lots of love to you and Raoul and Raphael from David dM. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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