Last week I was in Munich doing a show at Galerie Ben Kauffmann. I hadn’t seen Ben in ages… well, since the last time I was over there and so it was good to see him again.

I’ve been making paintings in the studio for a while now and I chose six of them and took them over with a bunch of recent drawings.

The gallery is a tight space and sometimes those can be the most difficult to install work in… but it all went well. In the end I showed three of the paintings and nothing else and I think that totally worked and looked good.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes mid-installation shot for your viewing pleasure:

The opening was really good and it was great to see some of the guys I met the last time I was over. Then we all went and drank an awful lot of very good beer in a pub that was supposedly Hitler’s local when he was young. Obviously it wasn’t a theme pub. But it was very nice, as was the beer… and the people who made Trish and me feel very welcome.

I had a great time and it was a nice way to kick off the year. Especially given the fact that I drank about fourteen bottles/big Bavarian glasses of this crazy clear beer and woke up without a nasty hangover.

Result all round.