Maintaining The Balance
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Aim:
To balance the output of street pieces and products for sale
To remain authentic while being commercially viable
Maintaining The Balance - Project 1
A stencil image is painted in the streets as many times as possible with one 400 ml can of paint.
The painted pieces are documented and counted.
An equal number of prints are produced at the same size, in the same colour, of the same design.
Each print is sold with a photograph of it's corresponding street piece.
Maintaining The Balance - Project 2
A stencil is painted in the street to advertise the artists latest print release
A print is produced in order to gain financially from the artists latest street piece
Maintaining The Balance - Project 3
Customers are invited to purchase a print which funds an identical street piece.
The artist produces two identical prints. One is sent to the customer, the other is pasted in the street.
The print includes the customers name. The customer becomes both a patron of art for the community and
an accomplice in an act of "vandalism".
The artist and customer both share the "fame" acquired with "getting their name up", and the risk involved
with the act of doing so.
Print specifications
Maintaining The Balance - Project 1
One colour print, Acrylic on 140 gsm paper, 297mm x 210mm
Edition of 46. Signed and numbered by the artist
10 euros + shipping
Maintaining The Balance - Project 2
Two colour print, Acrylic on 190 gsm paper, 594mm x 420mm
Edition of 5. Signed and numbered by the artist
50 euros + shipping
Maintaining The Balance - Project 3
Two colour print, Acrylic on 190 gsm paper, 594mm x 420mm
Unlimited edition, each print customised with customers name. Signed by the artist
30 euros + shipping
For further details email: davethechimp@gmail.com
www.davethechimp.co.uk
Project 4
ReplyDeleteA print stating the prices of the first 3 print projects by completed auctions on Ebay and selling the forth print for 10% of this.
This would begin the 'garnering good favour project'.
Project 5, once the customer's name and address is known, go to their house, break in, graffiti the walls, fuck their wife and rob anything of value in retribution for them being such a cunt as to want to get involved with this project in the first place.
ReplyDeleteFucking rubbish..
ReplyDeletewhat is this blog dude I've never read so much bollocks in my life, time to get a real job you dumb fuck.
project 1 should be 'x' amount of originals sold at how much they cost to spray
ReplyDeleteProject 6
ReplyDeleteDave is taken to a mental home he is put in a straight jacket photographs are taken 10 are printed at Boots 6" x 4" size then framed in a black plastic frame from the pound shop signed by his doctor and dribbled on by Dave. These are then released by the baldy Lazarides or the fat greek at ANDIPIDADOODAA for £5000 each.
The Wanksy forum go mental for them Harveyn , Hlarmy , Zippy all buy one. Stevesoho buys 7 (5 years later they are still trying to sell them for £10,000 or trade for a box of pills by Beejoir)
Sold out Dave is released from the institution and lives happily ever after on a houseboat on the Thames just outside Reading.
Project 7,
ReplyDeleteThe artist renames himself as 'Dave the Gimp' and is chained up in tight PVC fetish gear in the middle of a gallery, then people attending the exhibition are invited to bugger him mercilessly if they should wish.
Sounds all massively gay to me.
ReplyDeleteWell, it might well be gay at some points, or at least bisexual, but then again, it wouldn't be gay if it was a woman buggering him with a strap-on. So it all depends who's doing it really.
ReplyDeleteDave the chimp - big on criticising other peoples work and the scene he so obviously wishes to belong, little on ideas or talent
ReplyDeletean artist has something to say about the shit you people are always moaning about and all you want to do is have gay sex with him? is that your warped idea of a compliment, or are you all just too stupid to understand that he's talking about street artists selling more than they put in the street?
ReplyDeletemaybe dave shouldn't have tried to sell these prints, then the message about what massive greedy bastards street artists are would come across better. though maybe not selling them defeats the point he's making?
maybe the fact anything appears on hear at all means it's going to get called shit as the people here got more hatred than ability to think
maybe all street art is just shit, making this blog redundant
Maybe Dave likes being pounded hard in the botty. You never know.
ReplyDeleteIt's all just so confusing.
ReplyDelete1) Have a good idea
2) Bang it on a wall
3) There is no (3)
FIN
In project 3, if the customer is "sharing the risk" of doing illegal art, does that mean the customer would also be liable for any fine/asbo/community service that might be incurred should the artist get caught while placing the work?
ReplyDeleteWhy the sudden hate for Dave funky?
ReplyDeleteYou're like the worm that turned.
I wouldn't be seen dead littering the street with that cack.
ReplyDeleteFunky isn't hating on Dave by posting some work by him. he does post work sometimes that he likes (Zilda recently)
ReplyDeletehe hasn't said he likes this stuff though...
damn, didn't get as many comments as Eine
ReplyDeletenext time
The pink one would have been quite good satire if it wasn't actually for sale.
ReplyDeleteDiddums, i guess it's because no-one cares less about your work Dave
ReplyDeleteDave stick to drawing Monkeys
ReplyDeleteIt's your best work so far
Anonymous February 2, 2001 11:37 AM - You've kind of missed the point
ReplyDeleteIf all I'd wanted to say was "street artists that make multiple editions of one piece they put in the streets are cunts" I would have just made one of the second print, photographed it inside, then taken it outside, stuck it on a wall, and photographed it there. That, however, wouldn't be street art or graffiti, as I wouldn't have been making/leaving work in the street. It would just be an artist making a negative comment about "street art editions".
The point of this project was not to say "blah blah is a cunt", or to try and be ironic or satirical, it was about looking at how we can be more honest, claiming to be something (a "street artist") while still making a living from selling work. I make my living from selling paintings, drawings, and prints. The majority of people buying my work are buying it because they've seen similar works by me in the street. It would be disingenous of me to talk about other artists doing the same thing I do (even if I believe many others are painting in the streets simply to sell work)
I thought it was pretty clear that this was a project about creating a balance between the work a "street artist" puts in the street, and the work they sell. It doesn't work if the prints aren't actually for sale! If there is no product for sale it just becomes an attack on other artists.
At no stage did I imagine anyone would want to buy these prints (so much so that I almost didn't print 46 of the first print - but if I didn't it would have been dishonest. It's about an idea, a concept, and so wether I sell any isn't important) I also put the price very low to show it was not about making money.
As per usual though, people on this blog just want to talk about how stupid and empty and ugly things are, rather than actually giving any thought to what an artist might be trying to say. The comments on this blog are a mirror of the people that make them. So it comes as no surprise you all think everything shown here is crap.
Dry your eyes chimp !!!
ReplyDeleteYou do tend to go on a bit and to be honest what you are doing what is the actual point of it all ????? it nots going to change anything is it
You are a funny chap just had a look at your website
Is this an A level project if so i think you will get a C+
Funny comments there Dave, especially as you've previously been harshly critical of others work on here. I guess it's not as nice when your on the receiving end of it.
ReplyDeleteI do happen to think you have made some very good points in many of your previous postings on here, no matter how scathing they've been, but forever associate you with imagery like this ( http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3204/2803842578_9f8fa44995.jpg ) and find it exceptionally hard to accept anything you say. Pot, kettle etc etc
Massive cock on a skeleton ???????
ReplyDeleteBrilliant
I was the one who said about satire Dave, and yeah...I did originally get what you were trying to say. My point was that it's just quite dull.
ReplyDeleteThe second piece had potential to be a funny critique of the street art scene, but you invalidated that option by being so po-faced and 'conceptual' about it that you felt the need to actually make a real print of it and sell it.
So all that we're left with is exactly what most other street artists are doing, which is trying to shift product off the back of a street piece. The only difference is that you've turned that process into a 'concept'.
Seeing as these pieces have no aesthetic appeal, for me, the concept alone isn't strong enough to make this work interesting.
By the way Dave, before always throwing your toys out of the pram after assuming that everyone is always misunderstanding you because they cannot grasp your high level thinking, perhaps you might want to consider the possibility that your art simply isn't all that good. Which might then explain why we consistently fail to shower you with the praise you seem to feel you deserve.
some one call Banksy and get him to do one of those pics with the monkey titties, cause we've got one unhappy chimp.
ReplyDeleteI liked it Dave.
ReplyDeleteDave you fucking genius where you gone brother
ReplyDeleteI liked it Dave.
ReplyDeletedamn, didn't get as many comments as Eine
ReplyDeletenext time