Pile of rubish worth $15,000?

**Elysium** · 12th September 2009, 07:06

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...inning-rubbish
Ok I may be biased here as I know nothing about "art" but I think these art galleries are really reaching a new low if they're handing about $15,000 to a "Aucklander" who lives in Berlin who got staff members to make this crap and not even share the prize money with them.

What ever happened to artists who spent months on paintings or pculptures who spend months or even years creating their work? But no, we get this poof ask staff to empty the rubbish bin on the floor and give hm $15,000 for his hard work. I mean are our tax dollars paying to run these galleries?

**fatzx10r** · 12th September 2009, 07:12

lmao, what a crock of shit.

**Taz** · 12th September 2009, 07:37

And he didn't even do the work himself! Just instructed the gallery staff to "chuck the litter from other award entries together". The world is going mad in my opinion.

**tri boy** · 12th September 2009, 08:45

So, going by the Waikato Contemporary Art judges taste, I can curl a big steamy turd on the carpet, and get at least $500 for it.
Hell I'll give them one every day for the rest of the year for $200 a turd.

**Laava** · 12th September 2009, 09:31

Has it occurred to you that his "work" might have been the most aesthetically
pleasing in the exhibit? Scary huh?

**Taz** · 12th September 2009, 10:11

Originally Posted by tri boy

So, going by the Waikato Contemporary Art judges taste, I can curl a big steamy turd on the carpet, and get at least $500 for it.
Hell I'll give them one every day for the rest of the year for $200 a turd.

All you'd have to do is instruct them to do a turd on your behalf.......