[aha] Fwd: [NetBehaviour] Mocking the Arts Establishment? In Italy it can be an expensive ordeal.

[roberta buiani]

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> Date: July 6, 2011 11:50:06 AM EDT
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> Subject: [NetBehaviour] Mocking the Arts Establishment? In Italy it can be an expensive ordeal.
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> Article by Roberta Buiani.
> http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/mocking-arts-establishment-italy-it-can-be-expensive-ordeal
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> Roberta Buiani writes about the young artist 'Luca Lo Coco', who found 
> himself at the center of an attack initiated by the director of Flash 
> Art, Giancarlo Politi himself. Lo Coco critiqued the commercial artworld 
> circus, for lacking authenticity, social values and artistic integrity. 
> He created a pesky doppelgänger of the Flash Art website at 
> www.ashartonline.com, replacing the original content with is own 
> artwork. The site also existed as a platform for others to share their 
> own critiques and observations concerning the arts establishment. This 
> ended with Lo Coco having to close the site down after 6 months, as well 
> as losing all of his home furniture when he had no money to pay for the 
> hefty fine imposed on him by the courts.
> 
> This David and Goliath story shows us the big divide in the art world 
> between those powerful within the arts establishment and those existing 
> independently trying to find a platform and representation for their own 
> creative voice. This article also touches on issues of whether these 
> contemporary art world gate-keepers are worthy representatives of the 
> arts, in view of their failure to reflect the bredth of the actual 
> contemporary art scene.
> 
> "Politi’s exaggerated reaction appeared to become gradually an act of 
> intimidation directed to the whole independent arts community rather 
> than a personal affair between him and Lo Coco. [...] the perfect 
> scapegoat, the sacrificial lamb that would serve to re-affirm loudly and 
> ostensively the power of BIG ART, authority, hierarchy, and institutions 
> against the younger, subversive, independent emerging arts." Buiani.
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