Yes, But Is It Art?
Pete's Mum was furious that he'd destroyed her prized Union Jack tea-towel
Not content with simply destroying one kind of art, Pete Doherty has turned his hand to drawing and his works are being exhibited at the Bankrobber Gallery in London.
Given Doherty’s history of breaking and entering shouldn’t that be Houserobber? Anyway, according to the Bankrobber Gallery, the exhibition “includes self portraits and images of prison cells.” One image shows a prisoner face down on a bed in a cell, whilst another is a self portrait of the singer in his trade mark trilby constructed with dribbles of blood on paper.
If you have seen Ghosts of the Civil Dead, you may recall the scene where Nick Cave draws a dismembered woman on the wall of his cell using his own blood. Well, Doherty's art is like that, only shitter. It is undoubtedly the worst excuse for art you’ll ever see. Most of it looks like a children’s painting with a couple of syringes glued to it. After viewing this, you might want to throw on the Babyshambles record for a bit of relief. Yes, it’s that bad.
Bankrobber also state that “Bloodworks is Pete Doherty’s first real forray (sic) into the commercial art world.” Commercial art world? This talentless zombie’s life is a commercial exercise. What’s more jawdropping than the utter shitness of his “art”, some of his pieces going on sale from for around £2,000! Now, that’s a lot of smack.
Man this is so true Vincent. And what pisses me off more so is that the joke is on us. [Insert anecdote] Myself and a couple of buddies recently went to the National Gallery of Vic and saw some of the wonders of modern art. The central piece in the main room was of a white sheet with some twigs and bark placed on it, in no special way, just thrown there. And that was it.
The piece that really did us all in, and I'm sure will sell at some Armadale gallery one day, was of a circle drawn freehand on canvas with a gray lead pencil. Except like all circles, one half looked symmetrycal and the other half did not. The artist then in a fit of anger stabbed the canvas about 20 times with the pencil (this is what we deduced) then with a can of spray paint, painted the whole thing gold (not just the squewiff circle, the whole canvas).
The title of the 'piece' was called "The Moon". GET FUCKED!
The curator needs a good kick in his nuts for encouraging crap like this to hang in a tax payer funded building.
Back to Doherty, I saw one of the splattered blood pics and jesus - who the fuck is Doherty anyway. Just like contestants on the Big Brother TV show, his moronic behavior is rewarded with $$$ and lots of it.
The joke is on me.
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