To think this is just rubbish?

[takeyourmeds]

This years turner prize winner is a bunch of found objects in a gallery space with a bunch of word salad about Brexit, austerity, immigration slapped on it to try and make it meaningful. I don't buy it at all, I love art and get a lot from conceptual and installation work that some find inaccessible but its just getting beyond ridiculous now with this who emperors new clothes garbage that people claim to like because they think its edgy or hard to get or that the artist is flavour of the month. I've seen work in this vein that does work but this is just a joke.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/05/jesse-darling-wins-2023-turner-prize

I agree what a load of nonsense and codswallop. This style of art is becoming more and more ridiculous each year and people actually pay to see this. I guess the artist is onto a money winner there.

The winner of this is usually is a pile of crap

lights going on and off in a room?

I might submit a mango on a chair next year to represent a global awaking and its juxtaposition with the meta-narrative of suppression.

Reminds me of garbage "art" at a gallery I worked at in the 90s. Someone had vomited on the floor and until the cleaners arrived it was marked off with a wooden barrier. A visitor asked me if it was real or part of the exhibition. I said it was a comment on the exhibition.

You should, it sounds better than this shit show!

@Catsmere 😂

@takeyourmeds 😁

This years Turnip Prize offers strong competition:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-67630524

😂

@Scampuss It sure does, its practically the same work!

Its actually a crime that work won over the excellent work of Barbara Walker.

I visited the gallery and Barbara Walker's work was incredible! It's sad that the piece she did directly on the wall will just be erased. Personally I didn't think much of the other entrants.

Yawn - old people complaining about 'modern' art.

Ha, we went to see the Turner about 15 years ago when DD was a baby in a sling, it was all stuff a bit like this now. DD started crying, you could leave little comments on post-it notes so I said ‘we had to leave when baby started crying, I was relieved’.

Yawn - edgy types pretending anyone who can see piles of rubbish aren't art are old fogeys.

I just looked up Barbara Walker, now there's an artist!

Its like the Facebook meme about art with paintings painted without degrees eg Mona Lisa, that have inspired generations, then it says people with degrees and we get banana's stuck on a canvas and somehow that's considered the new art.

He should have been charged with fly tipping.

FFS, it’s like the Emperor’s new clothes.

"For his winner’s speech, Darling criticised Margaret Thatcher for taking art out of schools because it wasn’t “economically viable”. He said: “She paved the way for the greatest trick the Tories ever played, which is to convince working people in Britain that studying, self expression and what the broadsheet supplements describe as ‘culture’ is only for certain people in Britain from certain socio-economic backgrounds. I just want to say don’t buy in, it’s for everyone.”

The irony is, it's this kind of art that is least accessible to the average person on the street.

Also not sure what he says about Thatcher is even true (and I am normally the last person to defend Thatcher!). My school education almost mirrored Thatcher's term in office, and there was no shortage of art lessons or even materials at my bog-standard comprehensive school; it was one of my GCSEs.