Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => But is it Art? => Topic started by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 06, 2018, 09:39:18 am
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Not photography, but has some interesting implications on pricing of art:
Banksy has previously made clear his feelings about the art market in a work entitled “I Can’t Believe You Morons Actually Buy This Shit”.
“Banksy painting ‘self-destructs’ on podium in auction prank“
https://www.ft.com/content/1c748f2e-c8ea-11e8-ba8f-ee390057b8c9
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Yeah!
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Brilliant…and, given that it's a piece by Banksy, not exactly unexpected. :D Know your artist!
-Dave-
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Banksy is so effective that the Financial Times won't let me read the the piece about him unless I subscribe. :'(
Go, Banksy!!
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Hell, the shredded pieces will be taped together, doubling the price.
The thing is, was Banksy being irreverent or inventing a new art? Maybe both, who knows. Credit Sotheby’s, it allowed the performance.
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Banksy is so effective that the Financial Times won't let me read the the piece about him unless I subscribe. :'(
Funny, I was able to read the whole article this morning, but not anymore.
Here is a link from Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/06/banksy-painting-sold-auction-million-then-automatically-shredded-itself/?utm_term=.dfdd4c2b8f96
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There was a nice clip of the auction on my local news this evening. Banksy apparently built a shredder into the frame, so it was shredded as soon as it sold (and the price has now no doubt gone up substantially!) ;D
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https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sothebys-contemporary-art-sales-1366384
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Banski wants to be -and is- the next ‘Marcel Duchamp’ .
It follows Duchamps urinoir called ‘Fountain’ .
(Btw i have heared this fountain was an idea of a girlfriend)
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Any reports yet on how the shredder was triggered? Mobile phone app?
Opens up some possibilities for the future. Art will self-destruct unless royalties are paid to the creator, maybe?
Another angle on "creative destruction"?
A secondary market for each of the shredded strips might emerge.
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In a related “news”:
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In a related “news”:
Good one. Thanks for that, Slobodan.
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https://news.artnet.com/market/banksy-re-authenticates-shredded-1-4-million-european-buyer-will-keep-1369852
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Amazing!
I shredded some of my old bad prints a few years ago, and I haven't gotten a single offer yet! :o
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Funny, I was able to read the whole article this morning, but not anymore.
Here is a link from Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/06/banksy-painting-sold-auction-million-then-automatically-shredded-itself/?utm_term=.dfdd4c2b8f96
I've run out of my free articles from the Washington Post as well as the FInancial Times. Banksy at work again.
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Amazing!
I shredded some of my old bad prints a few years ago, and I haven't gotten a single offer yet! :o
That's probably because the maid misinterpreted the significance of your renaming of the prints as written on the yellow sticky attached to it which read "garbage".
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I shredded some of my old bad prints a few years ago, and I haven't gotten a single offer yet! :o
Wrong way round, Eric! Get the offers, then shred. Fundamental mistake. Too late to rectify, sadly.
Jeremy
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From the Limericking Twitter account:
A painting by Banksy was smart;
At auction, it shredded apart.
Now tattered, in pieces,
Its value increases,
For such is the market for art.
-Dave-
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Nice one, Dave.
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This is a case of an original publicity stunt.
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This is a case of an original publicity stunt.
It is more than that -he takes on the Art scene & business that defines & buys ‘Art’ for enormous amounts of money.
He has always done that, also by making street drawings.
in a former action a lot of money was spend on the 'original' of ’ Morons’
http://www.banksy-prints.com/print/morons/
still for sale
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It is more than that -he takes on the Art scene & business that defines & buys ‘Art’ for enormous amounts of money.
He has always done that, also by making street drawings.
in a former action a lot of money was spend on the 'original' of ’ Morons’
http://www.banksy-prints.com/print/morons/
still for sale
You know, the guy is growing on me. I like that sense of humour. After all, no one is being forced to buy the stuff.