A Guy Did Some Art In Sydney By Making A Mannequin Out Of Daily Telegraph Copies And Setting It On Fire
First Tony Abbott's "Hopeless" billboard, now this.
Art is hard — it has hidden messages and subtexts and other confusing things. We can’t even decide on the colour of a fucking dress, so working out the meanings behind paintings and junk is most likely completely beyond us at this point.
Except for this piece of art. This piece of art is pretty easy to work out. Australian artist Fintan Magee wanted to make a statement about the dreadful state of Australian politics and media and just all of it, and managed to come up with a reasonably straightforward way to communicate his frustration:
- Acquire multiple copies of Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper, solemnly regarded as a garbage thing by right-thinking people everywhere.
- Create wire mannequin.
- Stuff said copies of Daily Telegraph inside said mannequin.
- Light that mother up.
It’s called ‘Man Bites Dog’, because newspapers. And art.
I like this art. It comforts me, soothes my old bones. I would buy this art. I even made a GIF out of it, to gently put me to sleep on cold winter nights.
As all Australian creative output is slowly morphing into different ways of saying “the government and its supporters are terrible,” we can probably to expect to see more art like this. Maybe there’ll be a haunting sculpture of Andrew Bolt cast in tree-sap, like the mosquito in Jurassic Park, or a performance piece where someone covers Christopher Pyne in bees. For art, you understand.
Art.