Free Christoph Buchel
No the Swiss installation artist hasn't been incarcerated for crimes against humanity, the title of this entry refers to the european capital of culture event 'All We Need' that we're showing the rice at.
I've been following Buchel's work a bit since MassMoca, (see the previous entry) and since arriving in a massive post-industrial space to become part of a large exhibition we keep noticing similarities here to his style. The most surprising of which isn't an art piece at all but a functioning police car pound that the organisers couldn't arrange to have moved. So as you negotiate the huge Tate-Modern-without-the-rebuild sized building, a large part is full of dust covered motors waiting like errant school children to be picked up by their parents. It works brilliantly with the themes of globalisation, western greed and materialism and accidentally counterpoints it all in a very pleasing way, Anyone who can get to Luxembourg in the next 6 months should go, be careful with our rice though please! We've never left it on its own before...
Check out the site here
http://www.allweneed.lu/