Exhibitions: As ye sew, ye can't paint

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 30, 1998| Author: Tim Hilton | Copyright information

Loose Threads

Serpentine Gallery, W2

"No maiden's spinning wheel goes faster then mine, in the whole of the canton of Berne!" is the merry boast of a girl in one of Jeremias Gotthelf's quaint tales of Swiss life. She is, of course, expecting a marriage proposal. I couldn't get this sentence out of my mind when visiting "Loose Threads" at the Serpentine Gallery, for this humourless anthology has lots of quotes from literature at its centre, and its main purpose is to assert that t...

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