Stu Mead visited Vienna at the time of a big language art show at the Kunsthalle Wien. Toni Stoos the curator showed Stu through the show and our vitrine of Artpolice and Man Bag zines/ 1993 thanks to Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw for facilitating exhibition. Stu was in Austria from his home base in Berlin. Stu was so natural about seeing his art in such a bone hard venue, such a coup. Stoos xeroxed more copies of the Man Bag when the supply ran out a lovely intervention.
Victorine Meurend (Meurent) Manet's favorite model beyween 1862-1875
I read a comment about how supportive Mlle Meurent was to Mssr Manet. I say anyone who poses for me more than once is a prince or princess as gender would have it. My wife has endured at least 2 dozen sittings of 2 and 1/2 hours each. Some of my pre-1999 models sat 2 or 3 times. It makes it easier to see the same face 3 or 4 times. Indeed you can see the face even when the person is gone. The idea that Artpolice and Man Bag were so well taken in Austria anbd Germany (the show traveled to Frankfurt made me think long term the print projects had found an audience. That the zines were images primarily drawings I think made this little sex zine different. Also Stu's infatuation with girls which was a cache' an added bonus cash-wise. The little book sold steady enough to provide Wimpy and I with regular hamburger money. Working with Stu was fun because he's so ready to humiliate himself for the sake of the Man Bag for a laugh. So the exhibition in Vienna was proof enough of progress art-wise in the big bad Eurozone.