So whenI saw Robbie Savage conducting an interview ahead of the Birmingham derby from a hairdressing salon, with tin-foil in his hair having his highlights touched up, I wasn't certain about his suitability for Everton.
Graumann worked for a time in the neuroscience and dermatology department at a hospital in Geneva, and here he created a sculpturally fantastic ensemble from the little objects one typically finds by a patient's bed: Surrounded by the sweeping oval of a cannula, pill cups in primary colors are piled up along with a gleaming, silver-colored plastic plate topped with meringue; a CD shining in rainbow colors rests on a paper doily with an enormous nail that has pierced a tin-foil ball; on the very top of the plastic-cup tower is a little polystyrene skull with silver rays (in the form of pipe cleaners) beaming from its dark eye sockets, gleaming in the bright museum light.
They outlive you, their secret task surveillance, to catch the sun, expose the rings beneath our eyes till come week three on the sly at night I knife them one by one with an ordinary kitchen knife let go the quick burble of helium the skittish collapse of mylar, tin-foil flat, crumpled, bagged.