Becky Beasley German Soup Installation View, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, 2009
Becky Beasley Brocken (I) (During my conversation with Thomas Bernhard, he suddenly took a broken window handle out of his pocket and placed it quiete carefully in front of him on a table with some newspapers.) 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 2 x 196 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (II) (As it happened, the window handle was lying on a copy of the Viennese newspaper 'Die Presse'. Bernhard was visibilly displeased by this fact and decided to re-arrange the papers so that his window handle came to lie on the 'Neue Zurcher Zeitung'.) 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 47 x 149 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (III), (All of this happened without him commenting on what he was doing. But once his broken window handle had found its proper place between the two of us, I could not help notincing a sly smile on his face. 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel 80 x 69 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (IV) (Bernhard now embarked on telling me about the history of his broken window handle and that he had been searching all over Vienna to find a duplicate 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 80 x 69 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (V) (He stressed several times that he was only interested in an exact replica, identical replacement or absolutely the same thing.) 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 80 x 36 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (VI) (Without it he felt that he could never open his favourite window in his Viennese domicile again. The point was that only an 'identical' object could help him in this matter...But the real point was still to come.) 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 80 x 36 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (VII) (After some moments of silence Bernhard said that if he was really looking for the absolutely identical duplicate of this 'broken' window handle, then he could only hope for yet 'another broken' window handle. Consequently, he would never be able to open his favourite window again.) 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 61 x 36 x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley Brocken (VIII) (In lieu of a conclusion, I should like to tell the rest of my Bernhard-anecdote. When he had left the Kaffeehaus, the waiter came and opened the window close to the table where I had had my encounter with Bernhard. He responded to my questioning look by saying: "It is rather stuffy, isn't it?, But, you see, Herr Bernhard does not like open windows; for he is afraid of draughts.) 2009 Black American walnut, brass, steel, 61 x 2x 8,4 cm
Becky Beasley German Soup Installation View, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, 2009
Becky Beasley German Soup (Fritatensuppe) (Fried Crepe Soup) 2009 28.5 x 37.5 cm, framed 63 x 80 cm
Becky Beasley German Soup (Leberknödelsuppe) (Liver Dumpling Soup) 2009 Gelatin silver print, 28.5 x 37.5 cm, framed 63 x 80 cm
Becky Beasley German Soup Installation View, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, 2009
Becky Beasley Curtains (I) (There have been many occasions when I have recorded something and I have come into the studio at 10 o’clock on a Monday morning and really been in sixteen, not just two different minds, but sixteen different minds as to how it should go...) 2009 Seamed gelatin silver print, archival tape, green acrylic glazing, 181 x 70.5 cm, framed 197 x 86.5 cm
Becky Beasley Curtains (II) (...and this sense of option is really quite a marvellous luxury. It’s a luxury that you cannot permit yourself in the concert hall, you simply cannot, you would be dead if you walked on stage not being quite certain.) (Glenn Gould) 2009 Seamed gelatin silver print, archival tape, green acrylic glazing, 181 x 70.5 cm, framed 197 x 86.5 cm
Becky Beasley Curtains (III) (...But in fact what happens is that by one o’clock in the afternoon having given it three hours of work I may not have come to any definitive conclusions, but I will finally have selected one of these options and made it my priority and ou 2009 Seamed gelatin silver print, archival tape, green acrylic glazing, 181 x 70.5 cm, framed 197 x 86.5 cm
Becky Beasley German Soup Installation View, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, 2009
