It's real hard to come up with specific rules for these sorts of
things. Personally, I approve of this guy splashing red paint all over
this thing, because I think it's funny and because based on what I've
read about the pieces in question, I don't think too much of them.
("The Rape of Creativity"? C'mon now. I did like the Chapmans' chess
set a lot, but any artist that claims they're out to "destroy" an art
form reeks, in my opinion, of bullshit.) Would I think the same thing
of the act if this guy were fucking up an original art piece that I
had respect for? Probably not. Though, if his execution (no pun
intended) was funny (artful?) enough, I'd have more respect for it.
After all, these things are temporary, and attachment always causes
suffering, and all that jazz.
It would be relevant to note that people who put their art on the
street (graffiti, stencils, stickers, etc.) expect it to get taken
down very quickly by city workers, if not by other street artists.
This is all pretty off-topic, here.
-QF8
http://scatterbrain.raygunarmy.com/
On 5/25/05, aleks vasic <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well it certainley was cheeky but, what gives him the right to deface
an original piece of artwork in order to create another? I view it as
destructive, no matter how brilliant of a concept it was. Im shure
Barschak could have thought of a more intelligent way to get his point
across. Im not a fan of the Chapman's but its the principle. I
wouldnt like someone coming into my studio and taking my sound files
for a project and altering them forever.
I dont think to mmany people would aprreciate a similar situation,
especially afterr working so hard on said project...
aLEKs
On May 25, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
What a brilliant work of art! Those Chapman boys have nothing on
Barschak. He was merely mimetically extending their own expression
in
such a way that it ridiculed them. How can they fault it, other than
claiming bruised egos?
~Kyle
On 5/25/05, COSTELLOE Richard <Richard.COSTELLOE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
just read this in the sunday papers this week. seems like one way to
find out if what you're doing is art... (what would McDonna think?!)
Consider Aaron Barschak, the so-called comedy terrorist who
gate-crashed
Prince William's 21st birthday party. In October 2003, he appeared
in
court on a charge of criminal damage. Barschak had interrupted a
talk
by
Jake and Dinos Chapman at the Modern Art Oxford gallery. The Chapman
brothers were discussing their exhibit The Rape of Creativity, which
features cartoon heads superimposed on a series of etchings by Goya.
Barschak had splashed red paint on one of the artworks, and on Jake
Chapman, shouting: "Viva Goya!" He claimed he was creating his own
artwork, made out of another's art just as the Chapmans had adapted
Goya, and that he intended to enter his work for the Turner prize.
Finding him guilty, district judge Brian Loosley said:
"This is a serious offence of wanton destruction of a work of art .
.
.
Even by modern standards and even stretching the imagination to
incredulity, this was not the creation of a work of art."
--
http://perhapsidid.blogspot.com
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