Is this okay?The sour cucumber is thrown on the ceiling, and the price is over 40,000 ...

A piece of sour cucumber was thrown on the ceiling, and then became a "artwork". Do you dare to believe it?

According to the British "Guardian" reported on July 27, Australian artist Matthew Griffin recently displayed such a work called "Pickle" in Auckland Gallery. , Throw it on the ceiling of the museum.

"Sour Cucumber" Works Motors Source: Courtesy of the Matthew Griffin and Fine Arts, Sydney

The price of this work is 10,000 yuan (about RMB 42,400). If some buyers buy it, he will receive a manual of how to restore the work in his home. In addition, he also has to spend another 4.44 New Zealand dollar (about about RMB 18.8), pays McDonald's cheese burgers.

The work carries a NZD$10,000 price tag, and will cost the buyer another NZD$4.44 for a cheeseburger. The institution, or collector who owns it, will be given instructions on how to recreate the art in their own space.

In this regard, some people call this "genius", "" Genius "and" Brilliant ", and some people call it" stupid ".

Others said, "I was driven out of McDonald's by the police when I was in a dozen years old, and now it has become art."

"I Got Kicked Out of a McDonald’ s by the Police for doing this when I was a teenager, now it ’s art."

Moore, the artistic director representing Griffin, believes that the different reactions to the work are also part of the fun of the work.

"Generally speaking, the artist is not a person who determines whether something is art. They are people who create and make things. Whether a thing that is a matter of art is valuable and meaningful, depending on our choice of using it as a social collective to choose it. Or talk about it. "

“Generally speaking, artists aren't the ones deciding whether something is art is not – they are the ones who make and do things. Whether something is valuable and meaningful as artwork is the way that we collectively, as a society choose to use it or talk about it, "moore said.

"Sour Cucumber" Works Vision Source: Courtesy of the Matthew Griffin and Fine Arts, Sydney

Moore also said, "(Cucumber) how it is thrown there, it is not important. As long as someone takes it out of the burger and then throw it to the ceiling. This posture is so pure and happy ... This is how wonderful it is s reason."

"The GESTURE is so pure, so joyful ... that is what makes it so good."

The work "Sour Cucumber" makes people think of a set of works called "Comedian" in 2019. This work of Comedian, which is composed of bananas and tapes sold 120,000 at the Basel Art Exhibition in Miami Basel, USA. The price of the dollar. In the end, Banana was eaten by David Datuner by New York Beauty Artist Datu.

What do you think?

Source: China Daily, Observer Network

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