Merda d'artista (artist's shit)
Merda d’artista (or Piero Manzoni uncanned), originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
Some days ago I had an idea coming home from work in the “Metro” for a picture (for some reason I don’t know I have good ideas while traveling by Metro or Bus or in the toilet). I remembered an artwort by Piero Manzoni called “Merda d’artista” and wanted to do a small homage to the work and its concept.
Posted this picture in Flickr with the following text:
“In May 1961, the italian artist Piero Manzoni collected his own feces in 90 numbered cans, which contain 30 grams of feces each.
He labelled them as “100% pure artist’s shit” in Italian, English, French, and German, and sold them for the price of their weight in gold.
Their current estimated value stands at approximately € 30,500 (around US$47,000). On May 23 2007, an exemplar has been sold for € 124,000 at Sotheby’s.
Like Duchamp’s readymades, “Merda d’artista” questions the meaning of art as both cultural and consumer objects by inviting the viewer to confront a system that venerates cans of shit as works of art.”
(from Wikipedia).
Even the initial idea was to post the picture as an homage to Manzoni and as a thought about art as concept (SLart included) some really interesting comments by Suzanne Graves made me thought a lot about SLart, so I think is a good moment to expose some of my thoughts about it
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Do you think art exist in Second Life? Totally yes! Of course, it depends on your own concept of art, for me art means to express your thoughts or feelings through some technique.
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There are artists in SL? Yes, of course, but this answer needs a comment. Second Life, as a platform-tool based in creation, has a biggest proportion of artists in his “population” than RL. The definition of art I was talking about in the question before is really opened, everybody can be an artist, but some have the technical and/or esthetic skills to be outstanding and that’s who I call “Artist”. Personally I think in Second Life there are a few artists and a lot of “divas” (and “divos”).
As I said in one in the comments about the picture in Flickr “… in Second Life there is a lot of art, but there is a lot of shit too…”.
Of course that was just my opinion… and I would love to know yours…
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I believe there are a lot of artists in sl and art exists in sl as it exists everywhere.You’re probably right about the divas and divos too.
My question is -how long will art be here?i still believe it’s so limited.So many senses are absent.Smell,touch (most times hearing too).This is mostly vision.Cropped senses=cropped emotions=limited art expression…
P.S.I have a weird feeling after reading your post.I’m not an artist.I’m not a diva either.I’m probably merda – and not even Manzoni’s.:D
Thanks, Chrisy. You are right there are some limitations in SL, but some new possibilities too, like a virtual 3D enviroment.
I’m not an artist either, just someone exploring himself through a virtual world, so we can feel weird together (let’s do a weird people party!!!) .
Btw, Looker Loomet wrote an interesting post in his blog about this theme, take a look.
What is art? is so relative, certainly in SL, but as you, Raul, said as in a comment on my blog, there should be at least a “social consensus” about it, to be accepted as art. But it all starts with the person who is looking at something.
“Merda d’artista” is supposed to be art for some, and is accepted as such, but to me it is just “a piece of shit”;)) (even if it the cans contain no shit )
I’m always in for parties!As for the tip,i’m also linked to Looker Lumet’s blog for quite some time now and read all his posts anyway.I might be merda in production,but i’m good at reading…:D
BTW,Raul will u come to sl bloggers social network?I’m waiting for you there!:D
I would not buy an artist’s poops because I am an unwashed Philistine. And gosh, even I can make those!
I will buy real arts though.
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