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Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Opening a great success

By Paul Gorman Published on September 28, 2015

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//Viewing exhibits in Gallery 2 at John Hansard Gallery. Pic JHG//

The opening of new exhibition Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Joining The Dots From The Situationist International To Malcolm McLaren at the weekend was a great success.

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//Visitors Nick Abrahams + Suze Malyon with their dog Mrs Shufflewick//

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//Caz listens to William Burroughs spoken word LPs//
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//JHG’s Jack Lewis with a projection from McLaren’s 1969 Goldsmith’s show//
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//JHG mainman Stephen Foster (centre) introduces the show, with me and co-curator David Thorp//
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//Jean Francois Carly shot of the 1995 Malcolm McLaren Ancien/Dead In England Be Reasonable shirt//
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///McLaren’s Goldsmith’s teacher Barry Martin with one of his photographs//
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//Saaya Nohara in her Vive Le Rock! shirt with vitrine exploring the source material for that design//
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//Derek Harris, Richard Cabut and Tony Drayton outside JHG//
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//Cath Slessor shot of Mayor Of London 1999 campaign materials//

Visitors came from far and wide to Southampton’s John Hansard Gallery to enjoy the panoply of 200 or so exhibits, which range from original Lettrist and Situationist International documents from the 50s, posters, pamphlets and leaflets relating to the May 68 Paris événements and English activists King Mob through to films of William Burroughs, Guy Debord and Alexander Trocchi and a wealth of art, design, fashion, music, photography and moving images relating to McLaren’s legacy as this country’s arch cultural disrupter.

Dangerous Minds reviews the show here.

Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges runs until November 14.

Find out more here.

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