While nosing around in the land of tea and crumpets, I checked out the British Arts Council’s webpage. Apparently, one thing they’re famous for is exporting British art and artists to venues across the globe. (Arts colonialism?)
I especially like the page on Rachel Whiteread’s art going to Brazil.
I wonder how that sickly pink hot water bottle (image, “Untitled, Pink Torso, 1991),a necessity 30 years ago for heating a cold British bed) was received in Brazil.
Without the cold weather context the object seems a stylized tumor, sick and not a little creepy (which I guess it is).
