cK, I assume you're just being cheeky with this whole thread, but you might want to check out the work of Maurizio Cattelan. He's all over your racket. Maong other things, he regularly sends more educated friends to impersonate him at interviews and speaking engagements, constantly comes up with new ways to avoid work, like the time he had a major installation due and on the last day, acted as if he had procrastinated so much that he had gotten nothing done, so he knotted together some bedsheets and climbed out the window. he has pulled pranks on every gallery that's shown him, including breaking into another gallery and stealing another artist's work, and then displaying it as his own without even bothering to take it out of the boxes. Another time, he organized an art show in the Caribbean, but put on no exhibit, basically meaning he got a bunch of sponsors to donate money so that he and a couple artists could go to the beach for a while. Much of it is staged, sure, but it's often about laziness, procrastination, and avoidance of effort. Other times, he puts an enormous amount of work into things, but they're usually equally subversive.
He hires other people to do much of his work for him, which means he makes barely any money on his shows - but it beats working. There's nothing interesting about him online: check out the book of photos and interviews Phaidon published about him recently. |
