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...crass luxury - a platinum skull layered with 8,601 diamonds - then to offer the poisoned apple to the world's billionaires for $100 million. At that price level it would not only be the most expensive work by a living artist, but a punch line to Hirst's conceptualist joke about the madness of the overheated art market. Just like The Golden Calf, the diamond skull would go into the world to prove its own argument about false values...
...wait-as in a late-night steak-knife commercial, there's more. Equally impressive are the works of skater video artist Shaun Gladwell, epic landscape photographer Rosemary Laing and conceptualist Christian Capurro, all invited by Biennale director Robert Storr to show independently in the Italian pavilion and Arsenale. Capurro, in particular, stopped traffic with his intriguing project, Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, which had invited hundreds of people to erase the pages of a 1986 copy of Vogue Hommes, clocking up over 260 hours and turning the magazine (by Capurro's calculation) into an $A11,349.18 work...
...June 7, the art world will do well not to fall over an Australian. Storr has chosen to show Rosemary Laing's panoramic photos of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, a new Mad Max?inspired motorcycle video by Sydney's Shaun Gladwell and, perhaps most intriguingly, Melbourne conceptualist Christian Capurro's Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, for which over 260 people hand erased each page of a 1986 copy of Vogue Hommes. Representing Australia, the pavilion will house New Zealand-born Daniel von Sturmer's quirky table-top kinetic sculptures; the elegantly epic ecological videos...
...other." SFA's serious side dominates Phantom Power, the band's sixth album, out this week. It has the familiar Super Furry sound - upbeat acoustic sections, driving rock, close harmonies and techno breaks augmented by horns, strings and synthesizer. (Previous comparisons have ranged from ELO to dance-pop conceptualist the KLF.) But Phantom Power is an album of its time. Written and recorded in the second half of last year, the record is full of paranoia, uncertainty and the threat of war. "It was just so present all the time," says Rhys, "it was difficult to discuss anything else...
...Vadim’s appeal lies not in performance, but in his innovations as a producer, a composer and a conceptualist...