Art Will Save The World : Sculpture Prompts Banker Suicide

[cronus]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 58871.html

Is it an Antony Gormley sculpture or a man ready to jump? Hong Kong art installation cancelled after suicide of banker who threw himself from roof

An exhibition of life-size human sculptures by Sir Antony Gormley on the rooftops of Hong Kong has been cancelled following the suicide of a banker in the city.

The British artist’s Event Horizon show has previously been seen in London, New York and Sao Paulo – and in each city it has prompted passers-by to call emergency services in the belief they have seen someone preparing to jump.

The 31 figures were due to be put up on buildings in Hong Kong for several weeks after the end of Gormley’s first exhibition in the city, which closed on Saturday.

However, JP Morgan asked its landlord Hong Kong Land not to sponsor the show after one of the bank’s staff – Li Junjie, a 33-year-old investment banker – leapt to his death from the 450ft building containing their offices.

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[JimC]

Monkey see, monkey do?

[Svartalf]

I doubt there is any actual link but that somebody at the bank disliked the sculptures and used the suicide of that guy as an excuse.

[cronus]

I doubt there is any actual link but that somebody at the bank disliked the sculptures and used the suicide of that guy as an excuse.

Chief executive worried about losing the best staff leaving him in the company of crooks and money grabbing wolves.

[mistermack]

People are incredibly gullible. Produce a pile of shite. People ignore it.
Call it art. People rave and debate and agree and disagree.

No, it's still shite. Stick it on a rooftop. It's shite on a rooftop.
Stick it on a beach. It's shite on a beach.
Make it enormous. It's enormous shite.

[JimC]

People are incredibly gullible. Produce a pile of shite. People ignore it.
Call it art. People rave and debate and agree and disagree.

No, it's still shite. Stick it on a rooftop. It's shite on a rooftop.
Stick it on a beach. It's shite on a beach.
Make it enormous. It's enormous shite.

Philistine!

[mistermack]

Philistine!

Veggimite !

[cronus]

Art like religion and money only has value in its social context. A monkey with a stick is simply a monkey with a stick. A monkey with a vibrator all in bronze is a piece of art.

[mistermack]

Art like religion and money only has value in its social context. A monkey with a stick is simply a monkey with a stick. A monkey with a vibrator all in bronze is a piece of art.

But the point is that it can be art AND shite.

The fact that it's art doesn't bestow it with any value.
The value comes from the con.

[cronus]

Art like religion and money only has value in its social context. A monkey with a stick is simply a monkey with a stick. A monkey with a vibrator all in bronze is a piece of art.

But the point is that it can be art AND shite.

The fact that it's art doesn't bestow it with any value.
The value comes from the con.

One man's shite is another man's meal. The con works because folks want it to. The value comes from know what sort of shite rich fools prefer. A art movement begins when the artist as that edge of knowing and divulges it to a lover.

[mistermack]

The con works because folks want it to.

That's how all cons work.

Mind you, the world would grind to a halt without cons.

[cronus]

The con works because folks want it to.

That's how all cons work.

Mind you, the world would grind to a halt without cons.

A honest hand in this world is a dead man's hand.