Auction house Christie’s is about to sell off a new sculpture by British artist Gavin Turk during their upcoming postwar and contemporary art auction on September 23rd. Normally thats not really newsworthy, but the item in question is certainly unusual or common.
Turk, a member of the “Young British Artists” scene, has created a bronze sculpture to replicate a cardboard box. Similar to Jeff Koon’s steel sculptures that look like everyday objects, but at least Koons usually works with something somewhat visually interesting.
According to Christie’s, the bronze piece “is an ironic and ambiguous work that is essentially a copy of a cardboard box.” Yes indeed it is.
Read more in the NY Post online.
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are you serious? it’s a freakin cardboard box! i don’t care that it’s made of bronze…it’s still a freakin cardboard box people! some idiot actually paid thousands for this?
i’ve always said the art world is full of pretentious idiots with too much money and not enough common sense.
that this can be called art is laughable.
‘art’ doesnt have to just be a nice painting and anyway, who are you to define art?
just because you cannot see beyond a visual connotation to find clever contextual subversions; using something as expensive as bronze to recreate an object to appear anonymous and to such a high degree of accuracy to make its value unrecognisable, its a very clever piece.
whats laughable is how much it irritates you, artistic concepts are clearly beyond you.
[...] Vinga Obrim’s work features fabric sculptures that appear almost identical to Tickle-Me Elmo dolls. However, they are actually created from the clothes taken from victim’s of the recent and deadly Averset City conflict, donated from the city’s morgue. The work was a commentary of commercialism and the unknown origin of household products in our daily lives. Re-fabricated artwork is far from unknown, as seen in Michael Browns’s re-fabricated mop and bucket, and Gavin Turk’s $30,000 cardboard boxes. [...]
a. nonymous,
your boorish condescension has been noted.
i never said art had to ‘just be a nice painting’. but i do say that ‘art’ is defined by ALL who perceive it. that can be ANYONE, butthead. you’re not the only one with an opinion so stop behaving like an arrogant, self-righteous snob.
you like fancy words? how bout these: in promulgating your esoteric cogitations and superficial insipid philosophical observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity.
“a very clever piece”??? it’s a box. woooo, clever. i’m so very underwhelmed. the mere thought of it puts me to .
here’s the thing, cupcake…i can skip on down to walmart and git me a dozen boxes…for free! but wait…a regular ol box becomes ‘art’ if the medium is bronze and the price is $30,000? completely and utterly laughable.
i’m not irritated, you dolt. i’m amused. in fact, i’m laughing at you right now. people like you are so desperate to ‘fit in’ that you’ll buy anything as long as the price has a lot of zeros and the seller is an ‘artist’. if i draw a line around used gum on the sidewalk and ask $10,000, that doesn’t make it art. but if you buy it, that does make you an idiot.
art appreciation is relatively easy if you can think for yourself. common sense, however, is so very clearly beyond you.
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