work, including illegal graffiti, nor work with others outside of the shadow of the gallery that contractually owns them. Violation of these rigorously written legal documents will not only lead to legal action, but may bar the artist from ever developing a relationship with another gallery or art buyer. Beyond the contractual basis for most artist/gallery relationships is the currently dominate form of art sales - the art fair. The «art fair» has become the prevalent model for the large scale sale of contemporary art. These short one week festivals are akin to an upscale starving artists group portrait sale at a roadside motel. They charge galleries/artists incredible amounts to rent a cubicle style space and reduce art, its public consumption and its sale to an overpriced boot-sale. Art fairs are the horrible by-product of the capitalist driven model of art investment, like the slave trading markets of ancient Rome art
is bought and sold far from the eye of anyone but the 1%. The art world and those who would practice its arcane rituals have fully become the playground of the rich spoiled investor classes. They have so thoroughly invested in the ownership of art that they control who is seen as popular, who is getting attention in the media, who can make a living at the making of art - completely without thought for talent, skill or soul of the true artist. When art can return to the practice of art making, to the experience of the process of creation, it will begin again to breath a new life. Free from the constant recycling of past ideas, the stagnation of spectacle, and the banality of appropriation art will then be capable of changing the world - and not a moment too soon. RSH - 1 MAY 2012
RSH PRESENTS ORLD’S THE W
O N LY I FFIT GRA L A IV FEST
FREE ADMISSION
ART
LONDON
JUNE 1 - 2012 The streets are our canvas, The world is our museum.
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NO PERMISSION, NO SPONSORS, NO FEES, NO SALES. JUST PUBLIC ART.