PETER GREENAWAY

credit photo: Alessandro Crinari

I attach up-dated Locarno Suitcases list adapted to Switzerland – I believe also we should bias the whole event towards da Vinci and cinema (festival gravitation).
An installation of 92 hanging suitcases for the Rivellino on three floors with ITEM 42 – ” 92 Objects to represent the world” on the main floor and ITEM 46 “Gold bars” – located inside the da Vinci fortress – strong on metaphor and security and good for da Vinci-seeking publicity. An exhibition of 92 Greenaway drawings and artifacts for the “Hans Arp” rooms – and the 92 suitcases displayed in all the rooms of the third gallery.

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Tulse Luper Suitcases – considerable planning and visiting and supervising – and two/three days photographing with Luciano.  The project has grown sideways – originally a photographic exhibition to aid an auction which presumably would bring in the funding – but now we have a potential  exhibition in three spaces, much art-direction,
the making of a catalogue etc – whose funding presumably is a separate entity. Do we envisage a two times 92 pages catalogue?
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Yours,
Peter

LOCARNO LIST
THE TULSE LUPER SUITCASES
THE  92  SUITCASES

1.  THE MOAB STORY
NEWPORT
SUITCASE 1             coal
SUITCASE 2             toys
SUITCASE 3            family photos

MOAB
SUITCASE 4            love letters
SUITCASE 5            double-suitcase of Jewish clothes – his and hers
SUITCASE 6            maps of Switzerland
SUITCASE 7            Vatican pornography
SUITCASE 8            live and dead locusts
SUITCASE 9            used pencils
SUITCASE 10          sewing needles
SUITCASE 11           frogs
SUITCASE 12           tools for burial
SUITCASE 13           photos of criminals
SUITCASE 14           dollars
SUITCASE 15           cherries

ANTWERP
SUITCASE 16           Swiss small change
SUITCASE 17           feathers and eggs
SUITCASE 18           alcohol
SUITCASE 19           perfume
SUITCASE 20           female underwear
SUITCASE 21           ashes
SUITCASE 22           light-bulbs (lit)
SUITCASE 23           blood-stained wallpaper
SUITCASE 24           small arms from Swiss army
SUITCASE 25           cleaning fluids
SUITCASE 26           shower-heads (outdoor working fountain-sculpture on patio)
SUITCASE 27           dental instruments
SUITCASE 28           station whistles ticketed with Swiss station-names
SUITCASE 29           place-names in Switzerland
SUITCASE 30           red/read books
SUITCASE 31           Swiss uniforms

2. FROM VAUX TO THE SEA

VAUX
SUITCASE 32          Locarno restaurant menues
SUITCASE 33          broken glass (collected from broken Swiss windows (filmed))
SUITCASE 34          radio equipment
SUITCASE 35          clean white laundry and linen
SUITCASE 36          female sleeping body
SUITCASE 37         fish
SUITCASE 38         holes
SUITCASE 39         art-works
SUITCASE 40         hats

STRASBOURG
SUITCASE 41          film-clips from prison movies  (prison-movie retrospective)
SUITCASE 42         92 objects to represent the world
SUITCASE 43         Swiss manuscripts
SUITCASE 44         dead roses
SUITCASE 45         children
SUITCASE 46          gold bars

DINARD
SUITCASE 47         broken china dogs
SUITCASE 48         blood
SUITCASE 49         equestrian paintings
SUITCASE 50         smoked cigars
SUITCASE 51          body-parts
SUITCASE 52          paint and brushes (from the studios of Giacometti, Hodler, Bocklin, Klee and Fuseli)
SUITCASE 53          burnt clothes
SUITCASE 54          cherry-stones

SHIP’S POOL
SUITCASE 55          red herrings
SUITCASE 56          lead

3.  FROM SARK TO FINISH

SARK
SUITCASE 57          crabs-claws
SUITCASE 58          yellow paint
SUITCASE 59          tennis-balls

DOPPOLDOSA
SUITCASE 60          musical instruments
SUITCASE 61           da Vinci architectural remains

TURIN
SUITCASE 62          today’s newspapers from the world (always brought up to date)
SUITCASE 63          buttons
SUITCASE 64          gloves
SUITCASE 65          shoes
SUITCASE 66          92 atomic elements
SUITCASE 67          dog  (stuffed St Bernard)
SUITCASE 68          dirty saucepans

VENICE
SUITCASE 69          earth (from the holiest place in Switzerland)
SUITCASE 70         water (92 labelled phials of water from 92 Swiss locations)
SUITCASE 71          candles  (lit)
SUITCASE 72          violin splinters
SUITCASE 73          green figs
SUITCASE 74          postcards of Rome
SUITCASE 75          black ink
SUITCASE 76          light (uranium)
SUITCASE 77          the coffin suitcase
SUITCASE 78          female underwear
SUITCASE 79          shoe-laces
SUITCASE 80          horseshoes

YUGOSLAVIA
SUITCASE 81           typewriter that was used by Borges (buried in Switzerland)
SUITCASE 82           Swiss turf (a clod of Swiss earth)

MOSCOW
SUITCASE 83           code
SUITCASE 84           chess-pieces

GERMANY
SUITCASE 85           board-games
SUITCASE 86           orange peel

HONG KONG
SUITCASE 87           beach sand (Switzerland has no sea-coast)
SUITCASE 88           bricks
SUITCASE 89           ice-cream

KYOTO & MANCHURIA
SUITCASE 90           dolls
SUITCASE 91            rope

NEW YORKSUITCASE 92             Luper’s in memoriam suitcase – a suitcase