The Buck Stopped Here: Bruce McLean swaps athletic works of youth for some navel-gazing at the ICA

Veteran performative maestro Bruce McLean was in self-regarding mode at the opening of his week-long stint as part of fig-2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) studio, London (19-25 October). Surrounded by mirrors of various forms and occasionally donning a pair of Ray-Bans, the man who brought the 70s art world Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band kicked off what he intends to be a “continuous interview with himself”, filmed and assisted by his long-term collaborator Eddie Farrell. The next six days will find the artist in situ, interrogating his own position as a practitioner and charting a voyage through his many decades of art practice with the help of projected images of his multifarious works. Mr McLean may now be a little too mature to be revisiting the nifty balancing acts of his now legendary Pose Work for Plinths but don’t expect any self-indulgence: artists are always their own harshest critics…