Duchamp was one of the inspirations for my Senior art project (in 1995). Robert Rauschenberg was another one.
I designed and printed the packaging and prototype for a "Fake ID kit", and had an area of the gallery taped off with security tape and a video camera where you could see yourself. I also had painted a brick wall with a shelf on it and presented it as am artwork with title LOL ...
Found objects and installations just might have gone from questioning what art is to being something worth sweeping into the trash ;)
So that gets me thinking, perhaps this could inspire a Challenge here: "Create your own art installation and photograph it".
With a special flag requiring it not be an existing installation (yes I realize that is impossible to prove ...)
At mt daughter's art school, someone dragged in a treadmill, stuck it in a corner, and called it their art project. Senior freakin' thesis. I kid you not.
Another one, someone cut out a tiny picture of a teddy bear from a magazine and decoupaged in center of a piece of plywood.
I'm inclined to go with the cleaners on this one.
If the bottles were remade into something and not just a "heap"/"pile"/"stack", then you could argue the art bit. Seems to me like "a couple of drunk artists decided that their empties should be considered art, because they're artists and stacked them".
While I'm open to artistic concepts, it's like me folding my laundry and saying museums should pay me lots of money to showcase it. "feck off"
Perhaps it was the only way the trite exhibit could make any headlines was to have someone sweep it up - perhaps it was a conspiracy- as the OP hinted at ... ;)
There are so many great artists doing interesting things. And so many artists dedicating huge amounts of time and talent to their passions. Artists who are recycling ideas with found objects should indeed not be rewarded with a gallery or museum space unless their vision and idea is captivating and at least an effort to have some unique thought or vision. IMHO of course.
Ah, yes. This installation had pride of place in the 2nd floor permanent collection of the San Francisco Modern Art Museum for years.
The museum has been closed for some time now for renovation and is due to open again in May.
I wonder where this installation will be in the new facility.
I live not so distant from Bozen and I've read this on the local newspaper and on the web.
If I was there I'd have done the same cause this kind of art is create by the art dealers to sell their products.
Perhaps this form of art is a provocation but has encountered some severe critics (the cleaning staff) who have seen in it the garbage that really is.....
Ah, yes. This installation had pride of place in the 2nd floor permanent collection of the San Francisco Modern Art Museum for years.
The museum has been closed for some time now for renovation and is due to open again in May.
I wonder where this installation will be in the new facility.
The original is lost. Museums only display replicas.
This is a document that was in the public since early 80's. The document is a letter Duchamp wrote to his sister about the urinal.
"On April 11, 1917, just two days after the directors of the Society of Independent Artists had rejected a urinal as a submission for their exhibition, Duchamp wrote to his sister telling her that ‘One of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture’. This letter did not enter the public domain until 1983. It contradicts Duchamp’s own later account of this seminal incident."
