Interview with Wolfgang Laib - sculptor who uses pollen and milk (and light and...), and does a great deal of meticulous work in a manner that I can only call devout:
The milkstones are the direct answer to what I left[medical school/science], to what I found milk and stone are about. Because milk is not what is told in hygiene. You can teach everything about this liquid but have no idea of what it is.
And, via Paul Perry, the conceptual-artist version of trash-talking:
Perry should know: he simulated a near-death experience with a ketamine injection as part of a piece. Hirst doesn't resonate with me, either, his work (as well as that of many of his peers and fellow Saatchi-faves) strikes me as disingenuous, cynical, and 'clever' rather than 'deep.' [both terms are unsatisfying here, though - I really want to use the Dan Reynolds term: "complicit with death," but shit maybe Dan really likes Hirst...]. I haven't seen his work in person, though, so my commentary can be ignored.
posted by Brad Larcen 6/03/2002[edit]
