Author Topic: Art, Part II (Read 3126 times)

Unisaw · « **on:** January 17, 2007, 01:09:15 PM »

SANTIAGO, Chile "Bon appetit," said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction.

"Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless," said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated last Thursday night around a table in Santiago's Animal Gallery.

On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year.

"The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation.

"You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added.

Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10.

A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in.

In April 2004 he dyed an enormous iceberg in Greenland with red paint.

cosine · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:13:03 PM »

Not art.

K Frame · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:30:17 PM »

Sure it's art.

Just really, really sick art.

Monkeyleg · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:32:24 PM »

Thanks a lot. I haven't eaten dinner yet.

Maybe I won't at all today.

Blech.

280plus · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:47:09 PM »

"If I tell you what it is, you won't try it."

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:49:46 PM »

From now on, if you're going to do anything wierd, perverse, or just downright sick, just make sure everyone knows that it's art. I'm going to go molest my sister now.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2007, 01:52:34 PM »

It's not art, but so what? I might be inclined to try it. If it tastes good and is healthy, does it really matter where exactly it came from? People have eaten far worse throughout history.

Stand_watie · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2007, 10:05:27 PM »

It's neither Art, nor his grammaw. It's Marco.

Bogie · « **Reply #8 on:** January 17, 2007, 10:54:05 PM »

IMHO, one should only blenderize the fish if one intends to drink the results. It'd likely REALLY freak everyone out if someone did that... And now I'm about 25 years too smart to do that sorta thing again...

mfree · « **Reply #9 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:19:56 AM »

I think this doesn't quite reach art but sure as heck matches social experimentation. It's right on line with... where was it, Ohio U? Where they had volunteers play prisoners and prison guards and eventually someone got beaten up after a suggestion.

Eleven Mike · « **Reply #10 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:21:53 AM »

I do not often speak of it, but I have been producing high quality works of art for some time now; decades. Most of my work is in a brown, moldable, highly fragrant medium, floating in a tranquil pool of colored water. Though my work has many deep meanings I would like to share with the world, my art is necessarily fleeting in nature. Its main message is the transience of beauty and of life itself. For this reason, after a short interval to reflect on the piece, each one is "flushed," as a I call it, and forever destroyed.

280plus · « **Reply #11 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:27:57 AM »

OK, now THAT'S pricless...

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:45:58 AM »

welcome to 1961 Eleven Mike

Piero Manzoni

HankB · « **Reply #13 on:** January 18, 2007, 05:47:59 AM »

I guess in the minds of some, "art" is synonymous with "grotesque" or "perverse" . . . (we really need the :barf: smiley . . . )

Eleven Mike · « **Reply #14 on:** January 18, 2007, 08:00:41 AM »

Harold, why must you insult my art? My installations are not ugly cans full of fecal samples packed tightly together by corporate drones.

You Phillipine!

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #15 on:** January 18, 2007, 09:23:19 AM »

yes, but does yours explode creating a dichotomy conundrum for the art archivist?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Manzoni

crt360 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 18, 2007, 12:34:37 PM »

Quote from: Eleven Mike on January 18, 2007, 04:21:53 AM

I do not often speak of it, but I have been producing high quality works of art for some time now; decades. Most of my work is in a brown, moldable, highly fragrant medium, floating in a tranquil pool of colored water. Though my work has many deep meanings I would like to share with the world, my art is necessarily fleeting in nature. Its main message is the transience of beauty and of life itself. For this reason, after a short interval to reflect on the piece, each one is "flushed," as a I call it, and forever destroyed.

Headless Thompson Gunner · « **Reply #17 on:** January 18, 2007, 12:38:38 PM »

Quote from: Eleven Mike on January 18, 2007, 07:00:41 AM

You Phillipine!

Antibubba · « **Reply #18 on:** January 18, 2007, 07:45:10 PM »

Quote

I do not often speak of it,

And we appreciate it.

Actually it reminded me of a short story written by Steve Martin. It's in his book, Cruel Shoes, and it's called "The Bohemians". Highly recommended. grin

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #19 on:** January 18, 2007, 08:08:40 PM »

I might still have that book. An odd man, Martin. The shoes themselves were unforgetable, what with the razor blades sticking into the toes and all. shocked

Mike's artwork reminds me of something Steinbeck wrote about a very artistic family. The father woke up every morning and made a very artistic arrangement of small hairs in the bathroom sink. I think it was in Cannery Row, about the father of Henri the artist.

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