If your art is bad, make it bigger. If it’s still bad, paint it red.
"Andrew, your art is really not very good. You need to push it up a notch, do something daring."
"Well, controversy sells...maybe child porn?"
"Um, that's not what I had it mind"
"Anti Catholic?
"Yawn.."
"OH! I know...!"
Some will find it shocking, macabre, echoing the worst allegations of Nazi atrocities. An American artist has spent the past 20 years making sculptures out of human skin, and is to exhibit his work in public in the UK for the first time later this year.
Welcome to the world of Andrew Krasnow, who has tackled one of the great taboos in art. Günther von Hagens may have caused controversy with his Body Worlds exhibition of human corpses, but Krasnow goes a step further.
His works include human skin lampshades – a direct response to the belief that similar items made from the skin of Holocaust victims were found at Buchenwald concentration camp.
Read more here.
Oxford University needs a new art history professor, as the present one doesn't know what he is talking about.
Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University, said Krasnow was not trying to be sensationalist. "He has not overtly pushed the sense of spectacle or sensation, unlike, say, Damien Hirst," he said. "He is working with deep and disturbing resonances. As an artist, he is pretty much out there on his own."
And "there" is not far enough. Maybe my exhibit of live pig fucking, dressed as Matisse, is passé.
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