http://bonhams.com/eur/auction/18931/lot/42/
And here's word from the winning bidder, sorry no, of course not, here's word from someone who really really really loves
http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/forget-saatchi-jean-david-malat-is-the-new-man-in-art/335.article
Is this some kind of joke?
ReplyDeleteI bought it. This guy is the fucking future seriously. You may think it was bid high by wealthy gallery investor types but I can assure you it was not. He has cool hair and shoes, but aside from that he's a great artsist with true vision. True collectors will love him. He's the fucking future.
ReplyDeleteBonjour!
Ditto.
ReplyDeleteHe came as a vision in the middle of the night and I have been transfixed ever since. I have been buying his back catalogue up like a bastard and I'm going to sell the motherlode when he peaks! But how do I tell daddy I've been using his mastercard?
Rich Simmons is the new Banksy. An over-hyped cunt with little actual talent beyond bad visual puns.
ReplyDeleteHe wears ultra skinny jeans that were meant for a 15 year old girl though, so he must be cool. He's probably also having a sexual relationship with Vandalog.
someone is going to be really happy when they have that hung on their wall and realise they are completely spasticated at investing in art.
ReplyDeleteLooks like he's followed the Grafter method, which is to rip a picture off of google image search and whack the contrast up full. A sure sign of somebody who has no artistic talent whatsoever, or else is too lazy to master the basics of drawing.
ReplyDeleteUrban art = Bad taste. The two terms are fully interchangeable. It's the modern day equivalent of 1970's cheesy fantasy art with castles, dragons and horses galloping through the surf, all in soft focus. At least that stuff took some technical skill though.
Trust me. I have as much dislike for "Soon To Be Very Rich Due To Complete Idiots" Simmons as you do. Actually, we used this image in a post over the summer to subtly poke fun at at Opera's lack of taste. Unfortunately, Steph's sarcasm was lost on Rich himself, who thanked us for using his image (unless he was also being sarcastic). At least the prices might be going down. Back in February, Rich was asking £20k for something even worse - http://www.mydaily.co.uk/2011/02/10/kate-middleton-art-graffiti-and-a-20-000-painting/
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't the Rich Simmons piece that was going for 20 grand, it was the equally shit piece by Zoobs that is feature in the picture accopanying that article.
ReplyDeleteIs this a case of rich people without a clue or is it vested intrests bidding up the price to create a percieved value.
Is Opera like an expensive art world corner shop for rich people.
Ah. My mistake. Well, yes, Zoobs is pretty crap as well then. Did anyone catch the prices of the Rich Simmons pieces that supposedly sold at Opera during their summer street art show?
ReplyDeleteLooks like you missed a trick there then Vandalog,
ReplyDeletethought you would have had a few fingers in the Rich Simmons pie, because you
usually swallow any old hype uncritically, then regurgitate it verbatim for your
readership. Plus you're well known to be all about legal murals, gallery shows,
auctions and any other bullshit sideshow that's all about money, rather than
genuine illegal street art that isn't of the advertising variety.
You can't really blame Rich for being the cunt that
he is though. He's just following the business model that you've shown
him.
Hey RJ, there was a previous thread on this clown here's the link...
ReplyDeletehttp://streetartdead.blogspot.com/search/label/Rich%20Simmons
The prices rumoured were either 25K or 2.5K (both sound like BS).
I don't think Simmons has a business plan. He just produces work that lacks any artistic conception and then the hucksters sell it or hype it to the ignorant and the dupeable.
My man! Thanks for your help and business model. Word. Will see you soon in the spandex and pump!
ReplyDeleteFeel sorry for the winning bidder, what a fucking retard haha 10 k for rich simmons, just shows what good PR gets you in the art world these days...This is it guysm street art is well and fucking truly dead Ive seen is all now!
ReplyDeleteStreet art is dead has truly brought home to me the horror and ultimately the emptiness of this so called street/urban art. I feel blessed to find things in my life and in my self which enable me to keep perspective. A blade of grass for example! There is obviously a deep spiritual vacuum in the land and this 'art has become a form of self harming for those who have lost all perspective. Who buy and make it I have no idea ,but from why I stand ,they will be the first to drown when Babylon falls.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually quite hilarious to think of all the different things you can buy for ten grand, and then mentally compare them to this piece of 'art'.
ReplyDeleteIf the whole thing is a ploy by the gallery to shill him and build a reputation, then it's backfired big time, because that kind of price for dogshit like this just invites extreme ridicule.
That last link isn't working Funky. But I found the article by searching on that site. It's laughable. Deserves a post of it's own I reckon.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to note that there's not one single comment on the Urban Art Association forum about the tanking of Nick Walker's stock.
ReplyDeleteOne can only assume Nick forgot to put his absentee bids in in time.
ReplyDeletefirst of all i havge been following this blog for a long time,,, rich simmons ,,the very richie rich ,,,,,,the establishment ,,,paid offf from the right royal queen to punk up the prince with his take on a right royal wweddding cash, cash .,cash is thius what it has come to,,,,,everything is so disfused ,,,only a pawn in their game,,,,,,,,,,,,,the above should say " will suck royal cock for food"
ReplyDeleteStreet art is so dead that we can't even be bothered to slag it off nowadays. Nobody even cares about it any more except for Lord Mural-log and about 5 other fanboys. It's simply become an irrelevance. Good fucking riddance.
ReplyDeleteHow much did Banksy pay you to shut down this blog Funky?
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows that the true originator of the spray paint and stencils technique so often attributed to Banksy is, in fact, Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen. It's a great pity that as the technique has evolved, it seems to embody ever-decreasing levels of the raw energy and vitality attributed to those earlier works.
ReplyDeleteFunky was spotted yesterday, he was seen staggering down Bond Street while suffering from sun stroke. He kept going up to total strangers and saying "Rich Simmons is the future".
ReplyDeleteThe Art Police have been informed.
Yeah, Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen was the true originator, but the fans of urban art are trying to write that out of history because he's too macho and hetrosexual for them. They prefer their heroes a bit more effeminate.
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