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Mare181 | 13:35 Mon 24th Oct 2005 | People & Places

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Does anyone know the significance of the large picture of a donkey in a motorboat which is on the side of the Queen Elizabeth Hall?

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The picture is by Paola Pivi and this is what a review in the Indepedent says.
A vast ink-jet poster has been slapped on the side of the Hayward Gallery. It shows a figure standing in a small motorboat, afloat on crystalline water. This is not, though, a snapshot from a perfect holiday; the focus is an uncomfortable-looking donkey. Such is the suffering that must be endured for the benefit of art, and the artist .. The image diverts you from the more familiar touristic icons such as the London Eye and Big Ben. And that is the point of Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye - to deflect you from the rest of the world.
I think it's to do with this Universal Experience exhibition which is showing there at the moment.

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Thanks for that. The image has been bothering me ever since I saw it last Saturday.

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