A month ago, Tim Steiner, a young resident of Zurich, has sold part of his body tattooed a German collector. The acquisition cost of tattoo art lovers to 240,000 Swiss francs.
Interviews with the first man-painting in the history of world art.
Not every day falls luck to meet a living work of art. So, I immediately ask Tim Steiner, undress, and he obediently takes off his jacket - this gesture is an integral part of his contract - the entire back of the 32-year-old eitelya Zurich tattooed with a skull. "Image is not finished yet" - he warned - "need more pictures tattooed on his hands.
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Tim Steiner - the son of a Swiss businessman, who spent a happy childhood between Germany, Italy, East Timor and Switzerland. Tim Steiner - musician, he sings in the group of electro "passive resistance", which he also created and together with his colleagues. Tattoo for him - the most common. But this tattoo is one feature - it was not his. Figure it was created by an artist Wim Delvua and fulfilled her professional piercer Matt Powers, after which - for the first time in the world - that tattoo was sold to a German collector Rick Raynkingu who paid for the acquisition of "Tim" (this is the name of the pilot work) 150000 euros (240000 Swiss. francs).
The fact that this is not a simple tattoo. Tim Steiner sold part of his body. He received a third of the purchase price, the remainder is split between the artist and the Zurich gallery «De Pury & Luxembourg». For this bribe-man painting required to attend an average of three exhibitions a year. He has traveled to Shanghai in September to the fair «ShContemporary Art Fair», now he is to the November yavmarka in Karlsruhe. After his death, he intends to bequeath to his back - on the grounds of a legislative nature which are currently not yet found a solution, he has no right to sell it - Riku Raynkingu, collector, who became the meantime, his friend.
The story is shocking, intriguing, exciting. At the meeting, taking place in the premises of the gallery on the shore Limmat, Tim Steiner, with the Olympic calm tells about his status as "a guy who was the frame. His speech is calm and sensible. He spoke of the futility of modern art, playing with paradoxes and asks that question, leading the consumer society into confusion. He explains why he decided to become the world's first "man-picture":
"I have to rotate in the world of contemporary art. When I first heard about the project Wim Delvua, whose work I admired, I immediately and without hesitation offered his candidacy. We brought my friend Stephanie Shlyayfer, who works in the gallery «De Pury & Luxembourg».
Conversations tattoo open to the public, began in April 2006 the total of its execution took 35 hours. Wim - a genius, a bit crazy - in a good sense of the word. He showed me a picture that he wanted to meet me on the back. I like the idea of this tattoo has nothing to do with me. I have no message that I could make it through. "
Between Wim, Rick and Tim had established a good relationship, all three get along with each other.
But what prompted Tim to participate in this adventure: fame, money? "When I said:" Tim, you'll be famous! ", I replied that I was not glorified, and the product on my back. Become a Millionaire, is there are people who do not dream about it? Perhaps, with time after exposure in the major museums, this work will become very expensive. And the fact that my skin can eventually be placed in a frame and hung on the wall that is changing? In our time, when everyone wants to leave his mark, what difference to me what will happen to my body after my death. "
Perhaps now you have to ask the work of Wim Delvua for which the tattoo is the first "live" product. This forty-year artist, who lives in a medieval Ghent, cultivates an extravagance that could have arisen only in the midst of dreary Belgian plains. He likes to say: "Art - this is something that does not expect of art." He became known, tattooing ... pigs.
Several dozen of these "items", each of which has its own name, live in comfort on a farm in China, where hudodzhnik entrepreneur delokaliziroval his "farm art". He is going to turn this farm into an anonymous society "collectors shareholders. His drawings - a parody of tattoos motorcyclists, princess of Disney cartoons and characters are trademarks of Louis Vyuittona - tattooed on the backs of guinea pigs under light anesthesia. Commercial value they get after a pig slaughter and carcass cut up.
But the real fame came to Wim Delvua in 2000 when they invented the cloaca - kakashkovuyu car ", an idea which came under his influence" Novuyshih Times "by Charlie Chaplin, as well as works by Marcel Duchamp and Piero Manzoni. A series of installations, equipped with pumps, pipes and computers, reproduce clear the digestive apparatus, the issuer at the end of the process in front of the amazed public a piece of shit respectable size. Delvua intended to introduce its "kakashkovye installation" on the Exchange. "Cloaca sexless, like Michael Jackson. Cloaca - absolutely neutral creature "- explains in an interview this incredible successor Bruegel and Andy Warhol.
"I am looking for answers, along with other" - he adds. Exactly Tim Steiner defines his new role: "For 2 years we have come an extremely interesting discussion. People love the concept of Wim or hate it. Some even compare him to Nazi concentration camps. Others talk about God, the meaning of life, making the body in the commercial product, the omnipotence of the economy, death ... But it is more interesting than talking about the American serials! Everyone has the right to express their views - from the elementary to the most subtle sound intellectually.
Of course, the idea ispolnovaniya body as the medium of art at the new - is enough to recall tribalnye tattoos, tattoos yakuza, "carnal art" Orlan, Roald Dahl's novel "Skin" and even a movie with Louis de Funes "Tattooed". However, Tim Steiner, crossed the border - and this can not be reconciled, though he believes that there is nothing shocking in comparison with what is written on the Internet or displayed in niformatsionnyh programs on television.
The irony of the situation: "Tim" is no more expensive than the Chinese pig ...
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