So look.
look.
listen.
Since I was barely a teenage, I have always enjoyed and adored post modern art. The kind of art that truly says "fuck you" to the tradish art world. For many years I have defended Damien Hirst and other 'shitty' and 'overpriced' artists. I am totally aware that my opinions are not unpopular, due to the fact that post modern art is sold for many millions of dollars. A lot of post modern art is extremely stupid but that's why I love it. Is someone, who is a part of the human culture that we are all involuntarily entrenched in, going to pay $50 million for man-made art crap?? Yes. Like fuck me it's not the artists who are at fault here. It is the public. The consumers. So fuck you to them, they fell for it and I, me, Hui, I get to admire it from afar with a smug look on my face as a slowly applause my computer monitor thing that streams internet things to me. I didn't pay a cent (except for the museum ticket I guess and I've paid in hours worth of my life) and yet I get to reap the benefits of weird as, cold, hollow, deadpan art. I weep at Duchamp's remakes of his own original Urinal sculpture thing and stare at Warhol's Brillo pad things with great attention and admiration.
I must confess I am truly an art wanker. But not for the hell of it, I have my reasons and I think they are strong ones. And yeah I'm sorry I like Banksy. not because I'm a basic person who likes street art and 'cool things', but because for a long time, Banksy has also been a big 'fuck you' to the art world and he is undeniably technically good and recognizably unique in style. Also maybe I am just a 12 year old boy who likes that shit.
But ok. Now on to the betrayal bit.
Since I was 14, I have admired and appreciated the works of Jeff Koons. I became a huge fan girl. Freaking out at the site of his pieces IRL. When I went to the San Fran MOMA and saw Two Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J Silver Series) I basically died.
The series came out in the 80s but weirdly connects with me through the unchronological reference to Hirst's animals in formaldehyde works that came out in the 2000s. It was like those goddamn animals but they are basketballs and this was wayy before Hirst did that. I don't know why but damn it I love it soooo much.
Until now.
EXCUSE ME
JEFFF KOONS WHAT ARE YOU DOING
OMFG.
OK. Look. I have a bad history with LV. I hate that stupid brand. I just hate brands in general. I hate the dumb fucks who queue up and wait in the fucking cold to enter this fucking shop. so they can go in there. to spend $1000s. to own shit other people own. To drop those Gs just to be a fucking basic ass bitch. Listen. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm a dumb ass who will spend $50 on a collector's survivor buff. But look. Survivor is my religion. Without my #outwitoutlastoutplay and #forimmunityandreward mentality, I would complain 10x more IRL and would have not survived honours. I live by survivor. Survivor defines me. Survivor is a facilitator for social gatherings. Because of survivor, my friends come to my house to eat pizza, talk shit and consume alcohol with me. Thank you CBS.
Do people live by LV?? Is it possible to make a luxury brand the driving force of your social interactions and your motivations for life? IDFK. I could be. BUt ima judge you. Im sorry that is just an excessive way to live.
So i was walking past LV in sydney and immediately i saw the use of Van Gogh's name and most famous culture definiing work Starry Night and Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. I love renaissance art. I was so furious to see LV appropriating and reusing and commercialising these pieces for 1000s of dollars in commercial sales. People reuse these famous works all the time. BUT NOT LIKE THIS. NOt a big ass basic brand like this. YOU CANT DO THAT. YOOO I WAS MAD. HOw dare they. Does Da Vinci have a say?? because of him LV can sell these overprices containers to basic people. Can't create a culture? Can't come up with new ideas and aesthetics? No worries, we'll just steal whats out there. AND SELL IT AS A RIDICULOUS PRICE. Like yo LV is a designer luxury brand like can't you guys come up with your own shit? LIke this is way stupid
But then
the worst part came
after ranting about LV to all the people within my proximity, yesterday morning the news broke to me that the man responsible for this putrid appropriation was.. the king of shitty appropriation. The guy who's art has always been fuck you to the art world. but this time it was a fuck you to hui.
The only thing really Jeff Koons like about this stupid design is the leather bunny tag things that hang of and the bright coloured stitching. I can't believe Koons did this. How could he hurt me like that after all these years of my avid support???????
Look. I get it. It is the biggest fuck you to the art world by reusing artworks so famous you can never actually steal or own them. BUT WHY?? This shit is outside of the galleries. commercially available. Do you think LV fans know much about Koons? Do they care about the art world? Most of them are rich asian people that care about tags not culture. They gonna buy it and Koon's is just there like "ahahahah look I didn't even paint these yet i get the money from the collaboration"
I hate it sooo much. I get that he's taking the piss out of the consumer but the people are directly involved. and money is being made. motherfucking capital gains. If the money went to preserving art / culture establishments and funding for the arts, I could vibe with it. BUt this, I CANNOT. JEFF KOONS WHY DID YOU DO THIS. CONSUMERS ARN'T THAT SMART AND THIS ISN'T FUNNY TO ME. PEOPLE ARE PAYING SOOO MUCH MONEY FOR RECYCLED SHIT AND ITS NOT ORIGINAL. IN THE END ITS KOONS AND LV THAT MAKE THE GAINS. EVERYONE LOSES
I AM UPSET.
also fuck Chanel and their luxury boomerang shit. fuck that right off, tell your friends to stop being slaves to corporations who don't give a fuck.
3 comments:
man Hui I sympathise, but unfortunately cause the artists have been dead for like 130+ years (I use 130 cause that's the longest they have to have been dead, most places it's 70 years). Their work is pubic domain.
I hate to say it but like you can basically do what you want with a copy of any painting like those ones cause the money that would have been made is no longer gonna go anywhere near them or their descendants.
And like tbh, Chanel just released a $1200 boomerang to be sold in places who don't even know we have an indigenous population. SO like... yeah.
honestly the design doesn't even seem like a fuck you to the art world in any way. those famous works have become associated with wealthy society bc art collectors and shit and by putting them on a bag which is prototypical of super-rich bullshit it only has an additive effect, you know? it's like "here's this one status symbol on another status symbol." it has no subversive element at all
i bet they only think koons is the guy who did those metallic rabbits and not anything else. i bet they legit think he's on their side, because rich people are painfully unaware of the context of the things they consume
fuck all those status brands seriously
semi related note jay z recently performed with a gigantic metallic koons rabbit behind him so i don't know
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