Eric Ku
Out of context: Reply #22
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- francoisfido0
"Well show us how you would address an interesting subject... oh...wait.. you can't." -d_rek
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the issue i have with the work is that he's dealing with heavily cliché'd 'graphic design' subjects like barcodes, chinese takeaway menus, pin-badges, post-no-bills areas, etc... without having a point or taking a strong position in relation to any of it—the work is an exercise in typical marketing gimmickry—formally devoid of any real substance."don't you think the chair is something achieved?"
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formally it's the most accomplished work out of the lot, but here he's taken a 45 year old idea from conceptual art and again made a gimmick out of it. what does a chair which can be disassembled to form the letters in the word 'chair' do more than what Kosuth's work has already done? there is nothing left but a cheap trick which devalues the content of the original work.- artistMau
- had no idea that the chair was done before. Even so, the kid's just out of college. Pure originality is very hard to achieve.Corvo2
- achieve. Doesn't seem like a bad start to me.Corvo2
- in theory francois has solid arguments. in reality the world is fucked up anyway.Coffeemaker
- also, most of literature and philosophy are about "cheap tricks". Figures de Style.Corvo2
- that's bullshit.francoisfido
- it is?Corvo2
- sounds like bullshit to me. maybe you'd like to elaborate.francoisfido
- I can't. Wittgenstein did it first :PCorvo2
- you're not making sense to me.francoisfido
- point is: are you considering your evaluation principles are not free from linguistic fallacy themselves?Corvo2
- meaning, are you evaluating this work based on the work itself or by a standard idea of what the work should be?Corvo2
- and by "this work" I mean solely the chair.Corvo2