{"id":1340,"date":"2011-06-24T16:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2011-06-24T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:43:49","slug":"jiros-cafe-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=1340","title":{"rendered":"Jiro’s Caf\u00e9 Reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jiro Osuga<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u0092s installation, Caf\u00e9 Jiro<\/span>, in the Flowers Gallery<\/span> in Cork St, London in May 2009 was for me certainly the wittiest art show I’d seen in years, and you can get some idea of it from my pictures in this blog<\/a> and on My London Diary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jiro’s Caf\u00e9 <\/strong>has now returned to life, with a significant difference:\u00a0 what was then a caf\u00e9 in an art gallery is now an art gallery in a very real caf\u00e9, the Queen’s Terrace Cafe<\/a><\/em>, just off the Finchley Road a few steps from St John’s Wood station. Rather than just walking around a gallery you can now enjoy morning coffee, a fine lunch or afternoon tea while surrounded by a unique work of art.<\/p>\n

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One whole wall – the longest display space in the small caf\u00e9 – is covered by a panel<\/a> that was in the previous Flowers show, but there are three large works for the new installation along with a number of smaller pieces – including three in the smallest room.<\/p>\n

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I spent a very enjoyable evening at the opening, talking to many old friends and meeting new. Most were finding a great deal of fun in sorting out the answers to a gallery quiz by Jiro, exploring a few of the historical and art-historical references in his work.<\/p>\n

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Drinking in the caf\u00e9 you can find many famous figures, including Marx, Lenin, Che, Mao, the Queen and a ‘famous frog’ I’m not allowed to name.<\/p>\n

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\nMireille Galinou, who had the idea for this cultural cafe, with arms folded<\/small><\/p>\n

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The Queen’s Terrace Caf\u00e9 is described by Mireille Galinou<\/em> who conceived and runs it as a cultural caf\u00e9, and has a programme of events which include:<\/p>\n