I,m not an expert on art.
But I,d like to learn more ...
Sometimes art "moves" me more than design...Who told us design is not art (?)
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Artist to feed convict to goldfish
(from link below)
A convict on death row in America has agreed to let his body be made into a work of art if his final appeal against execution fails.
Gene Hathorn, who has been on death row since 1985, has given his consent for artist Marco Evaristti, the bad boy of the Danish art scene, to use his body as an art installation.
"My aim is to first deep freeze Gene's body and then make fish food out of it. Visitors to my exhibition will be able to feed goldfish with it," Evaristti told the Art Newspaper.
It is not the first time the artist has gained notoriety: in 2000, he came to worldwide attention when he put live goldfish into 10 electric blenders filled with water and invited visitors to the exhibition at Denmark's Trapholt Art Museum to switch them on.
The artist has visited Hathorn, 47, at his prison in Texas several times in the last year, and hopes this work will go on to form part of his wider project against capital punishment, which has included designing clothes for prisoners to wear on their execution day.
Evaristti does not think his plan is unethical. "The real problem is legally killing people," he said.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/02/marco.evaristti.art
wow
I like the idea of both pieces. The first reminds me a little of Bodyworlds. I was lucky enough to see it while it was in town.
http://www.bodyworlds.com/en.html
Waste of time
There was a saying in art school: "When you can't make it good, make it big. If you can't make it big, make it red."
It seems this artist has done both. What should be pointed out is that if he were a teenager doing these "art" pieces he'd be under psychiatric observation - as killing animals is one of the first signs of becoming a serial killer.
My guess would be the fish in a blender
would lead to the future serial killer moniker, of which I am in agreement.
The red iceberg has already been done anyway, or at least a variation thereof when Christo wrapped a few keys in Biscayne Bay in hot pink plastic or some kind of sheeting. Yawn!
One goal of art (or of the...
One goal of art (or of the artist) is often said to be the raising of consciousness/awareness, and there are as many avenues to achieve this desired effect as there are artists. Evarestti seems to rely heavily in his work on establishing an intensity of response - through the calculated use of what at onset appears to be a fairly direct hit but may actually be a highly visceral abstraction - in ways that bypass the everyday hum or static of human disconnection which governs much of our lives.
In short, his art seems an attempt at shortwiring truth. How much it succeeds or fails, like flipping the goldfish switch, is - in a way - kind of up to you.
Is anyone, at least anyone here in the US, not at least slightly touched by that final quote in gustavo's initial post in this thread?
If art is simply shock-value (and I am aware it approaches that easiness at times) we'd have even more artists out there than we have already. And maybe Madonna would never have to to go back out on tour.
Another goal might be to gain notice
because one can't continue to make art, at least art that pays the bills without some recognition from the marketplace, otherwise it's nothing more than a clever hobby. As far as gaining notice this artist surely is succeeding, evidence by these very posts.
Art or at least sale-able art is three things; 1. name recognition, numbers 2, & 3, see item #1.
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