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Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:55 am**

You've seen the unmade bed & cows in formaldehyde passing for modern art but this one takes the biscuit.

[font=Verdana][b][i]Art exhibition shows bare gallery

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:11 am**

Wubbish.... ::)

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:54 am**

Yesterday evening I was working. At a certain moment (after two cups of coffee) my belly started to rumble. When I finished doing my 'bussiness' at the toilet I looked back inside the toiletbowl and admired my true piece of art. Do you think I can earn a decent living with having a crap in an empty gallery?

Crash ::)

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:02 am**

Do you think I can earn a decent living with having a crap in an empty gallery?

Crash

Sorry, try again. Already been done. Beat this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/226000.stm

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:06 am**

Sounds an awful lot like composer John Cage's 4'33". A piece of music consisting entirely of four minutes and thirty three seconds of absolute silence.

Stuff like this is great for publicity. And that's all. The definition of "art" does not include "non-art". And what could be more "non-art" than absolutely nothing.

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:03 pm**

Utter crap. May I ask just why he needed funding for this? ::)

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:23 pm**

Why are people so crazy? Crazy to think they are doing something worthwhile and crazy of the people viewing to think it is worthwhile. ???

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:29 pm**

Utter crap. May I ask just why he needed funding for this?

Well it's not a bad way to make an honest living. Good luck to him if he can get away with it - providing I'm not contributing to it of course.

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 12:32 pm**

You probably are Doug...

"It has been funded by the Arts Council of Wales and the Sciart Wellcome Trust, a charity promoting art and science."

Well that money came from somewhere. :-X

"The exhibition, Gallery Space Recall, benefited from a portion of

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:34 pm**

Pretentious bollocks come to mind ::) ::)

Matt

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:32 pm**

....But for true stomach upsetting art....can anyone beat Robert Mappelthorpe?

A.

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:55 pm**

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:17 pm**

(this post funded in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Wales)

Posted: **Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:18 pm**

....But for true stomach upsetting art....can anyone beat Robert Mappelthorpe?

A.

I might have missed the point here Andrew, but checked out his website. If only I could take photos with 10% of his quality or was that the point?

Matt

Posted: **Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:48 am**

It's hard to believe people get paid to be lazy, and non-creative in the name of Art ::)

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