Damien Hirst – love him or hate him – is probably today’s wealthiest artist. Some say that he is a symbol of bad art and senseless consumption. To my mind, he has probably done more than any other single artist to mock the very art world itself, turn its pretentions to his own personal advantage [...]
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Clever or Effective? The Work of Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan’s art examines the massiveness of our consumption and its effects. In his artist’s statement he says “The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for [...]
