21 June-2 Sept. 2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
It's both a sad day when George Bush Jr. rolls into town as he visits Sydney in September under the APEC SUMMIT banner...the city is shut down, commuters and citizens are denied their right to go about their daily business - to work, meet their mates and protest against an illegally elected cowboy so detached from the people he need half the Australian army to protect him.... and it's a happy day as a huge banner flaps in the harbour breeze from Sydney's landmark Museum of Contemporary Art. The face depicted in that staple of Latino diets - beans - is of Che Guevara; iconic figure of Cuban revolution, the most hated figure in America next to Fidel Castro and adorner of walls in many a student flat.
Alas the exhibition closes just before Airforce 1 lands at Kingsford Smith Airport so Mr. President won't feel like he's landed in some leftist dictatorship but the image of Che - even rendered in beans - will remain a more powerful icon than the Texan oilman and his class A habits.
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