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Fat Soap Artwork
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Posted By:
Rochelle
Jun 19, 2005
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<a href="http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050619032609990011&ncid=NWS00010000000001" title="Bar">Bar of Soap Sells for $18,000 at World's Largest Art Fair</a>
Not a hoax (it appears), but disturbing. A few excerpts from the article:
"Perhaps the oddest piece of work at Art Basel is a bar of soap, displayed on a square of black velvet, purportedly made from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fat, removed during liposuction.
"Gianni Monti's work called "Clean Hands" -- the title is a play on the name of an anti-Mafia group -- sold in less than an hour for $18,000 to a private Swiss collector, according to Monti's Galerie Nicola von Senger of Zurich.....
"The avariciousness of buyers and the bidding up of works of art is happening in quite a bizarre way," said Bruce Wolmar, editor of Art and Auction magazine, at a panel discussion."
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Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 | 01:28 PM
Gross. |
Captain Al
in Vancouver Island, Canada
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 | 02:26 PM
This is peanuts compared to the total moron snobs that run Canada's National Gallery. In 1989 they paid $1.76 million for Barnett Newman's <a href="http://www.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/22101999/c1c.htm">Voice of Fire</a>. This rag is a 20 foot long black canvas with a red stripe down the middle. It has to be one of the biggest art hoaxes of all time. I bet the sellers are still laughing. The hardest part must have been keeping a straight face during negotiations.
I think about this every time I look at the deductions on my paycheck. |
Smerk
in to mischief
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 | 06:27 PM
I agree with Maegan - very gross... :sick: |
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