Marcus Harvey
March 21, 2009
The installation of Harvey’s very large sculptures at White Cube Hoxton Square is tremendous. I snapped this picture just after this guard sternly told me “No pictures!” Timing is everything. The sculpture is a rendition of a famous Winston Churchill bust with added Mohawk haircut. Harvey also is showing a huge portrait of Margaret Thatcher, “Maggie”, constructed as a mosaic of about 15,000 plaster cast objects such as vegetables and sex toys.
Hoxton is probably my favorite borough in London. There is a huge City College so there are lots of young people and it is ethnically very diverse. Thousands of apartments speak to the reality of real-world shops and multi-ethnic restaurants. Its intimacy struck me as a blend of my favorite sections of Paris and Amsterdam.
