Gentlemen it is official; you can get away with almost anything by claiming that it is “art.” And perhaps be nominated for a prize, or even actually win one. An interesting piece of art at this year’s Turner Prize exhibition is a jet engine...
Gentlemen it is official; you can get away with almost anything by claiming that it is “art.” And perhaps be nominated for a prize, or even actually win one. An interesting piece of art at this year’s Turner Prize exhibition is a jet engine that has been reduced to fine powder. Roger Hiorns created the art by first heating the passenger aircraft engine until the metal melted away into a liquid form, and then dropping the molten metal through a funnel and spraying it with a stream of water/gas that converts it into fine granules.
The atomized engine art has been placed on the floor of the gallery, and we guess it gets quite some interesting glances. That said, here’s a small quote from BBC, and we couldn’t agree more with the Sun’s Rob Singh:
To the Times’s art reporter Ben Hoyle it is “troubling but beautiful”, while the Guardian’s Adrian Searle sees it as a “desert of wadis, dunes and rills... a landscape of entropy and death”. Over at the Sun, Rob Singh is more blunt - “a heap of dust”.
Via: BBC News/ Visit London
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