And Now for Something Entirely Different
Thursday, April 17, 2008
I missed the Brett Murray opening at the Goodman, and it doesn't look like I'm going to get out there this week, owing to laziness and a heavy work load. It might be trying something a bit new, but does anyone have any impression they'd like to share? Start a little discussion in the comments section.
posted by Robert Sloon at 11:34 AM
12 Comments:
Again? Geez, who's leg do you have to hump to get some art engagement/criticism around here?
your own, mate
haha. (not helpful)
Thanks Anonymous 7:52PM, I humped my own leg and suddenly this was running down the side of it:
http://entertainment.bizcommunity.com/?p=398
Now it's all sticky.
I wonder if you can go blind from dry-humping yourself...? The sheer mechanics of it boggle the mind, though.
well, I'm not gonna lie, http://entertainment.bizcommunity.com/?p=398 is far from the best review I've read.
no shit, sherlock
Ok, here's what I think about Brett Murray's show. I think he was making a really apt and painful point likening South Africa's new power elite to the French aristocracy at its most corrupt.. given what is happening here, with the flaunting of struggle credentials which gets people into a position to exploit the poor and treat them like shit, it's even worse than the French aristocracy, for whom you can at least make the excuse that they were so cut off from reality they really had no concept of what being poor was like.
On the other hand what was sad and bizarre about the show was that all that bling (the ornate images painted in gold) is highly attractive to buyers, whether the bling is there for reasons of irony or not. And from what I hear there was an absolute buying frenzy going on at the show. So the visual language of European art at its most corrupt still makes for sexy and desirable signification of wealth which entire appeals to collectors.
So he gets street cred and a pocket full of green 'uns. Sounds like shrewd art production to me, what's sad and bizarre about that?
hooray for anonymous 5:12!
although i'm not sure you're justification for what the french aristocracy did is exactly right, but it's a) hardly important as regards you're impressions of the show and b) i cannot back up my claim right now.
anyway, thank you.
I wasn't justifying the actions of the French aristocracy, but rather pointing out that people who have never been poor have trouble understanding what it's like, whereas the sick thing about the present government in SA is they know exactly what it's like, and yet they can still turn their backs.
not that never having been poor is an excuse for anything
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