Good to see that he wants to use his work to "challenge the idea of traditional mass media and mass produced objects."
Interesting too how he achieves this by using mass produced spray cans and markers to mass produce the same style of paste-ups for the last 3 years, that have become a series on the mass media of the BBC.
The bullshit psychobabble marketing idiocy of some press releases is really sickening. Do they actually think people will read that kind of nonsense and think that they suddenly must have some of these childish blobs of shit because of the deep conceptual justification now being claimed for them???
I will personally boycott that gallery for life for insulting my intelligence.
"Tony's" - does it double as a cafe or a barbers shop?
when I first saw this work in the streets I thought "ha! that's dumb. I like it" - I like crappy, stupid shit, like the CAP lads from Poland
a month or so later I saw the same crap in Brick Lane gallery, and realised that this wasn't some joke retarded shit, but work that someone was taking seriously
I knew it was all over then. If dire shit like this could be hung in an art gallery simply because the artist had posted a few of them in the street then I knew street art was dead
Ah the sweet sound of cynicism and vitriol, posted by anonymous, the lifeblood of the internet. I wouldn't get too hung up on press releases, they're always a bag of wank. I'd look at the pictures, you know, at the gallery, rather than boycotting it before you've actually had a look. Yes, they're childish, playful and stupid. I kind of think that's the point. I am sorry that they didn't stimulate your clearly highly sensitised artistic faculties or measure up to your exacting standards of what street art should be. Or maybe I'm taking it all too seriously now as well...
Good to see that he wants to use his work to "challenge the idea of traditional mass media and mass produced objects."
ReplyDeleteInteresting too how he achieves this by using mass produced spray cans and markers to mass produce the same style of paste-ups for the last 3 years, that have become a series on the mass media of the BBC.
The bullshit psychobabble marketing idiocy of some press releases is really sickening. Do they actually think people will read that kind of nonsense and think that they suddenly must have some of these childish blobs of shit because of the deep conceptual justification now being claimed for them???
I will personally boycott that gallery for life for insulting my intelligence.
"Tony's" - does it double as a cafe or a barbers shop?
ReplyDeletewhen I first saw this work in the streets I thought "ha! that's dumb. I like it" - I like crappy, stupid shit, like the CAP lads from Poland
a month or so later I saw the same crap in Brick Lane gallery, and realised that this wasn't some joke retarded shit, but work that someone was taking seriously
I knew it was all over then. If dire shit like this could be hung in an art gallery simply because the artist had posted a few of them in the street then I knew street art was dead
Apparently he is the biggest seller on Prescription Arts website, but that ain't saying much is it.
ReplyDeleteAh the sweet sound of cynicism and vitriol, posted by anonymous, the lifeblood of the internet.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't get too hung up on press releases, they're always a bag of wank. I'd look at the pictures, you know, at the gallery, rather than boycotting it before you've actually had a look.
Yes, they're childish, playful and stupid. I kind of think that's the point.
I am sorry that they didn't stimulate your clearly highly sensitised artistic faculties or measure up to your exacting standards of what street art should be.
Or maybe I'm taking it all too seriously now as well...
Apparently he is the biggest seller on Prescription Arts website, but that ain't saying much is it.
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