David Medalla obituary

Filipino-born experimental artist who had a long-lasting influence on the British avant-garde art sceneHad you been in Cypress Hills cemetery, Brooklyn, one cold January day in 1993, you might have found yourself being handed a chrysanthemum by an elfin figure with soft brown eyes. This was the artist David Medalla, a pioneering figure in experimental and participatory art, who has died aged 82.The chrysanthemums were part of a performance called Mondrian in Extremis – the Dutch painter is