Ant Wars 2: ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE: DEAD POPE PART TWO

Taking care not to dislodge his Papal Pretiosa Byron slowly sat up and, resting his back against the Malign Meteor, took up the commentary. 

'Wilson's account,' he began, 'while entertaining, was not entirely accurate. First exhibited in 1999 at the Kunsthalle Basel, La Nona Hora (which actually means "The Ninth Hour" – the supposed hour of Christ's death) was later shown in Warsaw at the Zacheta Gallery.' 

He paused briefly to adjust his hat, then continued, 'Poland is 85 per cent Roman Catholic, and at the Zacheta Gallery it caused a real shitstorm: two members of Poland’s Parliament removed the rock from on top of the wax Pope and tried to stand the figure upright. 

'After the controversy had died down a bit, the artist avoided any specific interpretation of the work and modestly advised that “La Nona Ora could simply be a bad joke taken too seriously, an exercise in absurdity […] In the end it is only a piece of wax.”'

I was very impressed by Byrons commentary and gave him a generous tip. 

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