I actually first stumbled upon this artist while working at MoMA in the Prints and Illustrated Books curatorial department and I must say, I don't feel it. I could talk about it in artsy terms and point out all the reasons why people should consider this valuable art (let's see: it questions the canons of art and attempts to show the beauty in the non-art, it sends a political message that it's powerful precisely because of the formal simplicity, it conforms to a minimalist aesthetic unhindered by the burden of artistic decorations, etc) but subjectively speaking, I don't feel any attachment to this guy's work.This goes along with my many issues with some contemporary artists whose art is interesting only in as much as it jades your sense of beauty (all of a sudden I have Beaudelaire in my head). Yes it's funny, but for me, that does not make it art. Oh how I hate the glorification of the extreme mundane....
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