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‘Invisible sculpture’ sells for sky-high price
- Thread starter SilentPanda
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Absolutely. I'd rather have this than any number of Damien Hirsts. Or Banksys.
At least with this you could imagine that the artist actually had something worth saying.
It's funny to think that someone will actually have to process this in an insurance department. Oh Lord.
If this actually happens, then I could maybe come around on getting some enjoyment out of this rich people troll and flaunt their money and laugh at us poor people game.
This reminds me of an assignment I had one time in a religion class in high school...it was supposed to be a creative exercise (I guess) and we were to draw a new type of life form as if we were God.
I cynically scribbled at the bottom "My lifeform is invisible" and took a nap for the rest of the period.
I got a "100" for it
I cynically scribbled at the bottom "My lifeform is invisible" and took a nap for the rest of the period.
I got a "100" for it
Just because they're aware of how stupid it is doesn't make it any less stupid
Kinda how I feel. Such art can be legit. And there's a lot of unseen stuff that goes into the artistic process, which isn't always apparent in the finished work.
I thought maybe for a second it was a sculpture designed and painted in such a way to render it invisible when you look at it straight on or something.
The contemporary art world is so fucking dumb. It's 99% shameless self-promoters who managed to make themselves a name and can now sell anything (or nothing) for outrageous amounts of money. NFTs are the culmination of that. Just celebrities selling worthless shit or memes to people with too much fuck-you-money.
I minor'ed arts history at uni and it reinforced that perspective on the art world
This has to be a meta thing right? Like the artist is fully aware, and they're doing a bit, right?
Don't take this the wrong way, but I've never understood these posts re: charitable donations.
- Buy art for $18,000
- Donate to museum
- Deduct taxable income by $18,000
- Save a percentage (to be easy, lets say 50%) of $18,000 on taxes
- Still out $9,000.
- ???
- Profit?
Eh you're missing a step. When it's later donated to the museum, the art auditor estimates the price to be higher than what it sold for (sometimes 100x or more the buying price) .
I couldn't do it, I don't have a famous art name or connections to backup my bullshit with.
"The energy of the artwork", lmfao. Pretentious cringe shit right there. Maybe I should sell my boogers as art because I flicked them into an art gallery? They're art now right? Shit's trash.
Best episode ever. Perfectly exposed everything wrong with these corny ass "artists" these days.
"This void... It's everything!"
I'd imagine if this were stolen, it would involve a complex set of briefcases that would require the artist to be connected to. The thieves would use the briefcases to travel a few layers deep into the artist's mind, causing the artist to think about the idea of this artwork on a deeper level, and then having that idea changed. Perhaps the thieves could escape from those deeper layers back to reality with "bumps" of some sort. Maybe it would be called an "Inception" of thought after the heist is over.
This kind of work has been done to death and is trite. Martin Creed won the Turner prize like 20 years ago with work that could be considered way more contemporaneous/relevant and that was 20 years ago! BTW his work includes a piece of blu-tak on a wall... and a scrunched up paper ball...
Anyone who has even read an art book in the last twenty years can see this is just bad. There's nothing else to say about it.
Catholic HS for the last 3 of 4 years...we weren't personally religious, but my dad especially preferred to have me in private school instead of public. For comparison, the entire student body of the private school (~900) was less than just the freshman student body of the public school (~500)