The Sun reports that an artist has created a new art exhibition of drawings by masturbating over paper. Controversial performance artist Jordan McKenzie, 40, has made 55 images by ejaculating over canvas and sprinkling carbon over the results to immortalise them. The results of his labour entitled Spent are to go on display at the Centre for Recent Drawing in Highbury, north London, for a month.
In May 1961 Manzoni defecated into 90 small cans and had them sealed with the text Artist's Shit. Each 30-gram can was priced by weight based on the current value of gold (around $1.12 a gram in 1960).[1] In the following years, the cans have spread to various art collections all over the world and netted large prices, far outstripping inflation. Many of them have also exploded, maybe because of corrosion and expanding gases.
In 1958 he had “pneumatic sculptures”, 45 blow-up-membranes. The buyer could also have Manzoni's own breath inside the membrane. He also tried to create a mechanical animal as a moving sculpture, using solar energy as a power source. In 1960 he created a sphere that was held aloft on a jet of air.
In 1960 Manzoni marked a number of hard-boiled eggs as works of art by imprinting them with his thumbprint. He let the spectators eat the whole exhibition in 70 minutes. He also began to sell prints of his thumbprints. He also designated a number of people, including Umberto Eco, as walking works of art.
Feb-04-2008 17:53
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baby i got your money
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Anyway, what do you think about NASA playing 'across the universe' today for it's 40th birfday?
Feb-04-2008 17:53
MrJiveBoJingles
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quote:
In May 1961 Manzoni defecated into 90 small cans and had them sealed with the text Artist's Shit. Each 30-gram can was priced by weight based on the current value of gold (around $1.12 a gram in 1960).[1] In the following years, the cans have spread to various art collections all over the world and netted large prices, far outstripping inflation. Many of them have also exploded, maybe because of corrosion and expanding gases.
Modernist wankery coming to its logical conclusion: pure shit valued at its weight in gold.
