have u know i looked after ExxonMobils art work collection worth over £1.5 million (still looked like total kak to me !!)
this labourer comes up to me one day and tells me he has cleared the car park and should he dump that old bit of duct work ? not really listening i tell him to go ahead. Couple of hours later i remember that Mobil UK Ltd had a metal work of "art" outside their old HQ and it was now in our car park FFS !!!i leg it to car park and there it is in the fu**in skip. I get it out and its a bit knocked about but mainly ok . It was worth (according to Bonhams) £ 38,000 !
Oggy thing is cant call it " old pile of bricks that i havnt been arsed to move for at least two years even though the Mrs has nagged me to move em"
Henry probably true but you see in my defence i had evry item digi photographed, valued by Bonhams, had a tracking policy (barcode) so we knew where they where, every item over $3,000 check per year etc etc. However if someone asks to lob out a piece of old duct work, it wasnt realy a request to move an artwork !!!
was sent to EssoIreland to help them move to their new offices in Leopards Town. they left behind this large peice of "artwork" which was a mixture of stone (huge) copper and a water fountain (think they call it a mobile). The paddies said they didnt want it. Had to make em take it as was worth 20,000 euro. Last i herd it was outside the new office block in Leopards Town. We all agreed it looked kak !
I also cant wait for the Rothko exhibition (i'm a member) and ofter visit Tate Modern. Always make a point of visiting the Rothko rooms for 15 minutes or so - absolutely brilliant. The Francis Bacon exhibition opens on the 11th September at Tate Briton. What a great coup for both the Tates!
Prices of art stupid these days on account of all the billionaires and their wives "investing" in it. How about Lord Sutherland giving one of the Titians to the galleries, selling the other for £150m, pocket £100m himself and give the other £50m to underprivileged Scots as a modest gesture to those who suffered when his family made their wealth during the clearances?
Once took my 2 and a half year old toddler son to the (old) Tate....he was disinterested in looking at anything, but loved clanking noisily along the metal air vents they had in the floor. We wandered into the Rothko room and it was if he had been punched in the stomach. My boy stopped the clanking and simply gazed and gazed, and drunk in the colour and atmosphere of the place, it reminded me of the first time I gave him a spoonful of fresh squeezed orange juice, when his whole body shuddered with the pure tangyness of it. He began to point at the Rothko stuff, describing the shape of the work in the air with his hands...the sheer intensity of the colour I suppose hit his young eyes and overwhelmed him. As an adult I suppose I look at art filtered through loads of assumptions, but he was immediately affected by the intensity of it. My respect for Rothko certainly grew after witnessing that!
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Going as soon as I can borrow someone's membership
Deffo going if that is your opinion of it. Must be good. : - )
have a pile of bricks in my back garden was thinking of charging people £5 to look at em . Call it "Kidbrooke moon light movement".
That just show how little you understand about modern art GH.
You have to charge at least £25
Getteth my coateth....
this labourer comes up to me one day and tells me he has cleared the car park and should he dump that old bit of duct work ? not really listening i tell him to go ahead. Couple of hours later i remember that Mobil UK Ltd had a metal work of "art" outside their old HQ and it was now in our car park FFS !!!i leg it to car park and there it is in the fu**in skip. I get it out and its a bit knocked about but mainly ok . It was worth (according to Bonhams) £ 38,000 !
Not very well by the sounds of it : - 0
I thought you needed to be on the Dole and have a nice little number flogging 'used' cars, to be in the
"Kidbrooke moonlighting movement"....?
;o)
Henry probably true but you see in my defence i had evry item digi photographed, valued by Bonhams, had a tracking policy (barcode) so we knew where they where, every item over $3,000 check per year etc etc. However if someone asks to lob out a piece of old duct work, it wasnt realy a request to move an artwork !!!
was sent to EssoIreland to help them move to their new offices in Leopards Town. they left behind this large peice of "artwork" which was a mixture of stone (huge) copper and a water fountain (think they call it a mobile). The paddies said they didnt want it. Had to make em take it as was worth 20,000 euro. Last i herd it was outside the new office block in Leopards Town. We all agreed it looked kak !
Another freebie from Ken no doubt
2/10 for that one Pampers boy
Kim
sorry got a cold.
(Apparently there are two priceless Titians on offer to the Nation).
Soft porn I call it. Disgusting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/aug/28/art?gusrc=rss&feed=artanddesign
Two Titians or a Berbatov and a Robhino (or however you spell it)
Discuss in the words of Nolly
Len at least Titian`s are "proper" paintings not some pretenious bollox that we are TOLD is art .
;o)