Art Gnar: 04.11

Monday

Sunday

GNART HERO: MONTGOMERY WILSON

"CHEERS! Here's to how fuckin' lost yall would be w/o me. MY HAUS!"

I single handedly saved this blog from going into Chapter 11; I just feel like credit is due. It was my vision and mine alone that you could take the humanistic learning from your Liberal Arts degree and turn into a HRO ripoff. I think this blog was actually supposed to be about skateboarding or something, but its pretty clear after the last few days that I'm the only one pulling his weight here in the offices of art gnar.

Check out one of my arts:

Everything There Is from Montgomery Wilson on Vimeo.

Its not gnar at all, but I can't give a fuck because I built this house.

MY HAUS!

Saturday

CONTEMPORARY GNARTIST: RON MUECK

"She looks super deep in thought right? Just wait until I finish with her hair." - Ron Mueck

Ron Mueck is an Australian Hyperrealist sculptor.

"Most people are just way too small in my opinion. Sometimes I'll see some small ass fuckin' guy on the street and be like 'hey, why the fuck are you so small man?' and he'd say something like 'Oh...uh...I'm not that small.' And I'll be like 'OK GOOD; YOU'RE NOT!". -R. Mue

R. Mue also made some of the puppets in The Labyrinth

Wonder why he never made a giant hyperrealist Bowie statue. The hair situation might be too complicated for him. Its good to know your limits.

GNART HISTORY: GORDON MATTA-CLARK

Gordon Matta-Clark (June 22, 1943 – August 27, 1978)

As a child of two artists ( Anne Clark and the Chilean Surrealist painter Roberto Clark) GMC was doomed to have to be an artist. His problem was that he didn't give a fuck. His solution was that he didn't give a fuck about the achievements of humankind or architecture in general and decided to just "fuckin cut that shit in half".

"... Its just like... every time I see a building I just need to bisect the shit out of it. I feel like I have no other option." - GMC

People that are/were totally pissed about this artwork:

1. Frank Lloyd Wright

2. Le Courbousier

3. Antonio Gaudi

People totally stoked on this artwork:

1. Gallagher

2. The kid that always wished he could live with his parents but somehow be in another house

3. People who believe in the art gnar movement.

This piece also reminds me of one of the most gnar Hot Topic Anthems ever played at the ear piercing kiosk at the mall.

Let it be known:

Gordon Matta-Clark was a home wrecker, and a true Gnartist.

BANKS VIOLETTE SAVES 2011 FROM THE ABYSS OF POINTLESSNESS

"I kill zombies and I kill it in the art world; maybe I'll kill your whole family."

I'm gonna be honest right meow. I was totally going to just turn my back on GNART and consider it Left 4 Dead. Then I found out Banks Violette had signed off of Xbox Live long enough to put together a new show of #psychosexual black metal sculptures while he continues to pwn a bunch of 13 year olds on Left 4 Dead via his Xbox Live account.

Just when one might think that GNART was dead in 2011, which I seriously did, Banks Violette (avatar on the right) comes through with a health pack and a Four Loko.

Here are some sneak peaks of the show that #saved2k11:

Thanks for playing, whoever else was trying to get credit from us this year.

2011 - The Lost year in Gnart

"Hey, you wanna get killed standing next to this sculpture? ...Thought so." - Richard Serra circa "in the day"

So far, the eleventh and 2000 year has been a total fucking bust in terms of anything radical or gnarly or "fuckin' epic" happening in the art world. In 2008, Richard Serra would have made some giant Cor-10 Steel half-circle that could have killed you. This year he's throwing down some drawings that probably have no wizards or www.yyzzarrddd.zzz in them. Fuck that. I'm never going to the Tate Modern again.

#FUCKTHISPLACE

Hero of the GNART movement, Ai WeiWei (@aiww) is being imprisoned by the Chinese government for being such a "fucking G from str8 gangsta town."

"FUCK EVERYBODY, ESPECIALLY MY GOVERNMENT!" - @aiww circa his freedom from political imprisonment

Its pretty obvious that any kind of "FREE AI WEIWEI" t-shirt company would either be incensitive or just not gnarly in anyway; so Urban Outfitters has probably thought about it already and started selling them to Argentinian kids, mostly just trading the t-shirts for their Tom's Shoes which are too big for them anyway. Its hard to get a decent pair of Tom's these days. When I say hard I mean expensive, and I think that's partly because they have to make all these extras to give to the Argentinian kids, and they don't even want them.

#yrugivinusdeezshoes?

I think that they'd rather trade for the Ai WeiWei t-shirts because they believe in:

1. freedom of expression

2. being a "fucking G from str8 gangsta town".

3. The fact that they invented those shoes and can make them.

So, basically the GNART movement is going to have to be put on hold or hiatus; until either @Aiww gets out of mysterious jail w/o charges or those Argentinian kids stop worshipping #LeoMessi and start ®#gettingofftheirassesandmakingsomegnarlyartforthebettermentofhumanity .

(This doesn't mean the blog isn't still happening)

The long take redefined for the Gnart generation

Wednesday

Chris Burden: The Original Gnartster

On November 19, 1971 in Santa Ana, California, Chris Burden performed a piece entitled "Shoot" in which his assistant stood 15 feet away from him and shot him in the arm. Though never fully touched upon it is largely believed that the piece was meant to invoke thoughts of the Vietnam war. I cannot think of any art made by someone who is still alive (I'll get to Bas Jan Ader) that is so gnarly.

Burden's descrpition of the piece:
"“At 7:45 P.M. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket .22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.” Why do such things? “I wanted to be taken seriously as an artist,”

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2007/05/14/070514craw_artworld_schjeldahl#ixzz1K885JUnj"