Gone Mental

Is it me or is it the ex-potter, who has gone barking mad?

http://www.oxfordceramics.com/rupert-spira1/installation-of-96-deep-bowls-1

No-one in their right mind is going to pay over £600 for one of these bowls so who is going to pay 100 times that for 96 very similar looking bowls?

I suppose the hope is that a museum squanders money on the tosh.

Speechless...and that doesnt happen very often!

Perhaps they need to try that Four Rooms show. Meeth inks they would offer £500 for the lot.

Phil Rogers did a very nice 80 yunomi display which was bought by a couple for their aniversary, and I think it worked out at £60 a bowl?? And they were different colours sizes and decoration, But this is just crazy. And what's worse was hearing someone say that there were few potters who could make that many pots the same. I told him there were plenty of potters making standard ware who could knock out hundreds, if not thousands, in a week. It's nothing special.

Rupert Spira was/is a mediocre to average potter despite the uneducated nonsense that has been written about him in the media recently.

studio-pots wrote:Rupert Spira was/is a mediocre to average potter despite the uneducated nonsense that has been written about him in the media recently.

To be fair I think his pots are of great quality, but the are basic and more like standard ware than "art" in my opinion.

We'll have to disagree of the quality of Mr. S's potting but I should perhaps be "bigging him up" as I have four of his Cardewesque bowls on SOR that I'll be showing at my open weekend at the end of July.

I do agree that it's not art but I suppose his thinking is that if the plagiarist, Edmund de Waal, can pass this type of nonsense off as art then why not plagiarise the plagiarist.

I like a lot of his Teabowls but they sell for around £50 on eBay
He hasn't had much, if any, media exposure like De Waal so I don't see how he's going to get that price, tbh it looks like a stunt; knocking de Waal.

I agree with Potty , these are just boring standard pots and can't pretend to be anything else , the price ?............well Mental is the word

NaomiM wrote:I like a lot of his Teabowls but they sell for around £50 on eBay
He hasn't had much, if any, media exposure like De Waal so I don't see how he's going to get that price, tbh it looks like a stunt; knocking de Waal.

He used to get quite alot of exposure when he was potting and this exhibition at Oxford gained widespread publicity but he has moved on to greater things

http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/home

"In fact one is never a genius or a fool, but always only Consciousness."

Hmmmm.

NaomiM wrote:

Hence the title of this thread.

Given what passes for contemporary art nowadays,anything is possible. With the right combination of mysticism,chutzpah,snobbishness and marketing, you can sell almost anything as 'Art' to the utra rich who have a gargantuan amount of money but no sense or taste whatever. F

I agree Phil , after watching auction house on tv some folks will buy anything

I don't mind someone with more money than sense buying it but I wouldn't be best pleased if it were bought by a UK Museum with the help of public funds.