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Fake AA Ad Artist Cannonballs Fake Artist Koons
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After fucking fake artist Damien Hirst in his overhyped bum just last week, the brassy fake American Apparel ad burlesquer splashes water in the face of the neo-pop bullshitter. Koons's "Equilibrium" (1985) consists of one Wilson and two Spalding basketballs floating in a mixture of sodium chloride reagent and distilled water. According to the artist, it suggests "death." As does diarrhea. So let me be the first to call it: the AA prankster's racy reimagining of Koons's krap suggests "life." OK, where's my Art In America column?
Photo: Via the artist's co-conspirator Stereo Hell (Howard St. and Broadway in SoHo)
by Copyranter on August 13, 2008
Comments (3)
i actually like the koons piece (mostly for its sheer absurdity) but the fake AA artist's piece is also very funny. more funny than the other ones anyway, which are just mostly creepy.
then again, i'm not completely convinced it's not an inside job, in which case it wouldn't strike me as particularly courageous (nor would the previous "fake" pieces).
Posted by david t | August 13, 2008 12:28 PM
I thought absurdity in art went out with Marcel Duchamp. And I am left wondering why 1910 style art is considered avant garde.
But then the same happens in jazz, where Kurt Schwitters' Urlautsonate of 1913 is considered avant-garde. It's older than the despised Big Band Swing of the 30s...
I have my doubts over the fakeness of that AA artist. You may heve been feeding the Dov for the past time, Copyranter.
Which is better than being fed by the Dov I'm sure, But still.
Posted by Rob | August 14, 2008 7:07 AM
@rob - absurdity is in the eye of the beholder...
Posted by david t | August 14, 2008 12:58 PM