<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi to all,<div><br><div><div>Am 06.08.2011 um 18:30 schrieb Simon Biggs:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Jean has hit the nail on the head with that one. I think he could go further and propose that the art market abolishes art, at least within the domain that is the art world, which now equates to the art market.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div>hope you dont perceive this to much as promotion.</div><div>but since we are chatting about art and the context of art, in a big round of artists, an artpiece itself should also be allowed as an edaquate contribution.</div><div>it fits quite well into this point of the discussion, even if it perhpas offers a more affermative view on the relationship arts-and-economy/market.</div><div>... and perhpas a quite critical view on 'art' itself. :-)</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.the-alpha-and-the-omega.com/">http://www.the-alpha-and-the-omega.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>theres is also an english-text behind the image, for those who care.</div><div>i follow the discussion with great interest and i am curiuos where this whole thing will shift too.</div><div><br></div><div>best regards</div><div>florian</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>