Friday, October 15, 2010
Moniker And Multiple And Frieze
Art Fairly comprehensively dull, twit terers, facebookbollocks, comments, praise, sneaky pictures, galleries patting one another on the back (whilst stealing their wallet), bloggers lightly fingering their pda's with joyous abandon, photographers gently orgasming over their shiny SLRs, new versions of old pictures long forgotten, careers derailed hopefully pushed back into the limelight, smug halfwits, preening twats, £595 for a lesson in appreciating what you like, walks around and around and around, a cold beer, a punch in the face, a piss just in view of the front doors, waking up in the morning, learning nothing
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Sounds like you had a good time Funky.
ReplyDeleteWe just had Stroke here in Berlin
ReplyDeleteI was told the queue was an hour long on Sunday
I had only heard of one of the people who were there to paint
Apparently the big party on Saturday night was terrible
I went to see an exhibition tonight. The paintings were really very good. I was impressed. Interested. I looked at them a long time. And then I went to my office and sat drawing until midnight, then went and collected some wood I found in the street earlier. Maybe I'll paint on it. Maybe not. Doesn't matter. I was content with my evening. But being content isn't a healthy human state, so I thought I should check in here ;-)
Sooner have a smack than have to see all that shite anyhow.
ReplyDeleteFutertense????? some shitehawk from a forum flogging shite from shit artists he tried to flog last year and failed to do so, Pasttense.
ReplyDeleteOur noble and exalted leader, his highness lord Vandalog says that these things are important, therefore none of you must dare to question his decree! Enter your credit card details now, then sew up your mouths and chop off your typing fingers before the urban art police pay you a visit.
ReplyDeletethe moment people view a 16 yr old travelling the world on Daddy's money as a leader of the movement, you know it's time to shoot the messenger
ReplyDeleteHe's 19. He discovered street art when he was 16.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, get my gun down off the rack
OH SHIT! It just occured to me - street art is art in the street, free for all to consume. BUT YOU HAVE TO PAY TO GET INTO AN ART FAIR!!! Thus, they can in no way claim to be showing street art, and we should invoke the trade discriptions act and have all these shows shut down
Anyone know a good lawyer?
Lord Vandalog the younger is the arbiter of street art taste. Why? because his hedge fund daddy says so. Darth Vader Barbossa starts a fair to sell his SECONDARY Kaws crap to the unsuspected public. Someone light my buttocks up before they take over the country.
ReplyDeleteHis excellency prince Vandalog, the eminent street art tourist got psychologically butt-raped on the comment section of his own blog today. hahaha!
ReplyDelete“I started Moniker because I was sick of not being able to get my gallery, Campbarbossa, into more mainstream fairs,”
ReplyDeleteYou haven't got a gallery Frankie, you've got a website.
you mean webshite?.
ReplyDeleteIt's all Dogwank did you see the photos from Moniker??? What a shower, all very safe.... a saccharrine vomitorium of carefully PRed smugness, but nothing too good mind you so that you dont upset the heirarchy....wouldn't be seen dead amongst that lot....
ReplyDeletetalk about 'IN A RUT' I blame Banksy.
Even the name of it is deeply insulting, 'Moniker' is the old-school term used for a 'tag' in traditional hobo boxcar graffiti that goes back over 100 years. This present emporium of the banal is about as far away from that authentic underground culture as it's possible to be, yet parasitically feeds off it like an opportunistic vulture.
ReplyDeleteSTREET ART IS DEAD.
ReplyDeleteGRAFFITTI IS DEAD.
THE MOMENT MONIKER WAS SPAT INTO LIFE, THE PINNACLE OF COMMERCE IN THE ART GAME - AN ART FAIR, IT KILLED STREET ART.
AN ART THAT IS ABOUT WORK ON THE STREET, ART THAT WAS ANTI-GALLERIES AND ANTI-CONSUMERISM, AN ART THAT WAS FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, ABOUT REBELLION IN AN AGE OF RULES... WELL SELLING WORK IN THE GALLERIES IS ONE THING...HAVING AN 'ART SCENE' WHERE 80% OF ITS COMMERCIAL PRACTITIONERS DONT WORK IN/DO NOTHING ON THE STREET IS ANOTHER THING...A TRADE FAIR TO FURTHER COMMERCIAL SALES IS THE DEATH KNELL.
LIKE SKATEBOARDING AFTER ALVA, IT HAS TO BURST TO BE ABLE TO GO UNDERGROUND AGAIN, BE REBORN...
PS STEVE ESPO POWERS. YOU HAD MY RESPECT FOR LIFE UNTIL YOU CAME OVER ON A FREE TICKET TO PAINT THE MONIKER WALLS. FOR SOMEONE THAT IS/WAS SO ANTI-STREET ART (THE TEE, THE VANDALOG SNIPING...) TO PAINT A STREET ART TRADE SHOW? C'MON DUDE...YOUR LIKE EVERY OTHER GRAF HEAD / HURTYOUBAD DICKHEAD...ACT TOUGH AND HATE ON STREETART CUZ ITS AN EASY TARGET AND YOU (FOOLISHLY) THINK GRAF IS HARDER, TOUGHER, MORE WORTHY THAN STREET ART BUT THE MOMENT YOU GET SOMETHING FOR FREE YOU DROP YOUR TROUSERS, BEND OVER THE TABLE AND BEG 'MORE PLEASE'...
The Vandalog blog is fucking cringeworthy. The guy running it views everything through a distorted prism of perceived monetary value. I bet when he takes a shit he appraises it then sticks a price tag on it.
ReplyDeleteThere's plenty of self-aggrandising chancers who have attached themselves to this scene like limpets and now act like they're some kind of fucking gurus...Silky, Vandalog, VNA, Wooster and UKstreetart to name but a few. But I reserve my deepest contempt for Hookedblog, who pretends to be everyone's best mate at private views but ruthlessly slags them off behind their backs, and then has the front to ask for 'favours' in return for promoting things on his shitty blog that nobody reads anyway. A truly two-faced mercenary cunt if ever there was one.
ReplyDelete'A masterstroke by Frankie and all involved. It's another show of him always being one step ahead of the game.'
ReplyDeletefascinating one step ahead of the game would have been doing this 4 years ago, now it's just a boring attempt at a last money grab, now that no one wants your Herakut.
Thanks for quoting me. Very flattered
ReplyDeleteInterested to know why he's one step ahead of game Art-el?
ReplyDeleteSimples. He's the 'new' dealers selling secondary work at a fair! All the gullible and new people buying art thinks he's KAWS dealer. By the time they find out, he's long gone with the money they overpaid for. By the way, he's Shepard Faireys new dealer too!
ReplyDeletei wonder if he'll stop being a cunt about COA's once he starts making money again?
ReplyDeleteThis is the man who got turfed out of a Faile preview at Laz's gaff for trying to sell on pieces at a premium that he'd bought 10 minutes earlier - to people at the same preview !!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for quoting me. Very flattered
ReplyDeleteEven the name of it is deeply insulting, 'Moniker' is the old-school term used for a 'tag' in traditional hobo boxcar graffiti that goes back over 100 years. This present emporium of the banal is about as far away from that authentic underground culture as it's possible to be, yet parasitically feeds off it like an opportunistic vulture.
ReplyDelete“I started Moniker because I was sick of not being able to get my gallery, Campbarbossa, into more mainstream fairs,”
ReplyDeleteYou haven't got a gallery Frankie, you've got a website.