French artist living inside a rock surrounded by excrement: 'I feel completely at ease'

[Diddums]

I absolutely loathe this kind of thing. I can find absolutely no logic in it whatsoever other than attention seeking so to me this is a load of toss, and anyone who buys into this is also a ******.

There. Generalisation over, what do we think of this?

Bloody disgusting.

 

[mmj_uk]

Poop aside I don't see the artistic merit in it myself, it's about as artistic as someone laying in a stone coffin.

 

[Zatoichi.uK]

Possible alternative headline:

"Man completely at ease makes another man angry."

 

[topgun06]

Doesn't anger me in the slightest. Let him get on with it.

 

[Thekwango]

“I am travelling in this rock without moving, like an astronaut,” he said

ummm nothing remotely like an astronaut....

“We are already locked into our own bodies,” the artist told AFP minutes before climbing inside the rock to become what he called the boulder’s “beating heart”.

how about '**** off'

“I am a fan,” she added. “What he does is really cool.”

no, no it's not

 

[G-MAN2004]

True art died a few hundred years ago. Now it's just ****, literally.

 

[NoobCannon]

What an imbecile, same as shai le bouf

 

[Hotwired]

I think he got your attention. Infected your mind and got you to spread it along. Congrats.

Didn't click, won't click. I'll take the context given that it's attention bait.

 

[hornetstinger]

hahaha what you should do is pour in excrement with pretty much every disease they carry..

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/61646.php
https://www.zocdoc.com/answers/20474/what-types-of-risks-do-human-feces-pose

 

[sigma]

Well we're (you're) talking about it so it's working...

 

[redline]

I don't why people get so worked-up about this sort of thing... I don't 'get it' at all, and don't want too, but if he wants to do it, and some find it interesting then fine... its certainly not worth getting angry about.

Is it art?... not in my opinion, but despite too many of these sensationalist style artists, there is still a lot of really good stuff and good people around... true artists doing really well.

The rubbish is easy to ignore... unless numpties post it everywhere

 

[MikeTheNative]

LOL at the op the savage who doesn't understand art.

 

[wolfie138]

cool story bro, thanks for sharing.

 

[adolf hamster]

So what should we do with nutters like this? Lock him up in an asylum? Like he's not going to treat that as a holiday.....

 

[LoadsaMoney]

You could take a dump on the floor and say its art, and some idiot would pay 1mill+ for it.

 

[Uther]

Doesn't bother me at all. If he can get some idiot to buy his 'art' for a few million then crack on I say. I'd do the same.

 

[DrToffnar]

I actually find it quite intriguing... when artists stop challenging the norm, that's when I take a tumble somewhere.

 

[Mark A]

You could take a dump on the floor and say its art, and some idiot would pay 1mill+ for it.

So true, well you could if you are an artist . Like this amazing piece of 'art'.

When it was announced, in May 2014, that the work was to be auctioned, David Maupin, Emin's dealer in New York, described the £800,000 – £1.2 million estimate as too low. When auctioned by Christie's in July 2014, the piece was sold for a little over £2.5 million

 

[DrToffnar]

You seem to have remembered it though. I've never known a piece of art to inspire such discussion as 'My Bed'.

The fact pieces like this are encouraging debate about the definition of 'art' is almost the point (as clichéd as that sounds...)

 

[CREATIVE!11]

OP you jelly you are not cool enough to sit inside a rock?

"will attempt to become a human hen and hatch a dozen eggs by sitting on them for weeks on end."

Yeah op. You jelly brah.