I found an interesting article on the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/05/shrinkwrapped-shrink-lawrence-malstaff
The idea itself I find quite interesting, however, perhaps more revealing are the comments below; they make depressing, but through provoking reading. Is world-weary cynicism all that can be offered to something that, although far from the lofty heights of contemporary art, is in itself quite interesting? Why do we find it so easy to dismiss art yet so hard to define it? I feel like a weeping nine-year-old confronted with the uncomfortable realisation that his opinion is not so alone in the world as he assumed but still... how easy it seems to be to degrade achievement through the bitter lens of ignorance. Honestly, it does make very amusing, if also acutely discomforting, reading. Enjoy!
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Spooky - I have just added links on the main Art Blogto a blog with an article of the same artist.
RispondiEliminaPeople really do get worked up about Art that isn't made of paint on canvas don't they? Imagine if they had such trouble defining something like football:
'well it was just a couple of men kicking a cabbage about in a carpark - that's not what I call soccer'