In an art fair, like the Armory, Art practitioners must market themselves within an informal network of perverse rituals, what are the rituals of allegiance to art you have to perform? ( i.e., unconfortable hand-shakes…)
The Armory is like other fairs, a speed-dating museum. We appreciate make a solo-show at the Emmanuel Perrotin’s booth but the ritual that consists of licking the dog’s tongue of the collector’s wife, we don’t really appreciate it very much.
Artists like pop stars, galeries openings like red carpets events, what happened to the art world, why has it become so popular, so hip?
It’s because we rent the services of beautiful girls for openings.
Can the mainstream people identify to the art scenesters the same way they do with singers, or actors?
If they have enough imagination, of course yes.
Why do we need Art in our lives? Is Art an alternative religion?
In gold we trust.
Why do you think Art is so undemocratic, and why do art citizens keep their world so secretive?
Because galleries are too small
How come a gallery is so austere, the critic’s language so intimidating, an evening auction so snobish, for a world supposedly full of unconvential and anarchic people, the artists themselves?
They saw too much cubist painting. Imagine people loving Botero too much.
The art chart/ What’s your top 5 artists?
It depends if there’s a dope control?
Out of the tents / Where do you have dinner?
We try to stop eating. We are taking some pills.
A drink?
Still water in a yellow submarine.
Where do you party?
In the middle of the desert. There’s no neighbour’s trouble.
Five things you love about Art
Everything and nothing.
Five things you hate about Art
The opposite.
What’s the Art world’s worst secret?
It losts money.
What’s your favourite piece of clothing for an Art event?
A black vine leaf.
What’s the art world coming to?
A particle accelerator.
BY EVE THEROND
