“The man destroyed the large blue and white Porcelain Cube at a busy private opening for the exhibition “Who am I?” at Palazzo Fava in Bologna on the evening of September 21. Local police arrested a 57-year-old Czech man who has been identified in Italian media as Vaclav Pisvejc, a provocateur and self-proclaimed artist known for targeting important works of art.”

  • @jordanlundOPM
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    803 months ago

    What it looked like before it was destroyed:

    • @devilish666
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      323 months ago

      Am i just poor peasant who can’t understand art OR that sculpture looks like bunch of fancy PVC pipe glued together ?

      • @jordanlundOPM
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        423 months ago

        It’s made out of extremely delicate porcelain.

        • @meco03211
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          313 months ago

          Could’ve made it cheaper using PVC.

          • @takeda
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            153 months ago

            LOL, … and it also wouldn’t break as easily!

          • @[email protected]
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            83 months ago

            I saw that piece with my wife and just told her someone broke it and her reaction was “wait, that was actual ceramic? I always tough it was PVC”

      • @Madison420
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        263 months ago

        It’s modern art most of it aimed at a moral.

        As a guess I’m going to assume the point is that it’s a fragile extremely delicate vase with literally no purpose as a vase.

        You can’t put anything in it or on it, it’s vapid and empty like… Art.

        I’m gunna guess this is collaborative in some way between the two.

      • @mhague
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        113 months ago

        It’s using old techniques from Chinese history and applying them in a new way. Ai had to experiment and go through a lot of failure to produce such a different object. I don’t think the cube wireframe was important, just the old method being used to make a modern art piece.

        I like the idea of reinvigorating ancient crafting techniques by making modern art. I’m not exactly an art guy so I don’t know if it’s a unique idea but it made me think so I like it.

      • @Iheartcheese
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        53 months ago

        It’s a cube but for grandma’s.

    • @[email protected]
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      3 months ago

      Damn, I saw that piece in Rio de Janeiro years ago. The banner on my profile if from that same exposition. There were also other things made of ceramic like a teddy bear and a security camera. Iirc, one of the pieces was a pendrive with a backup of wikileaks.