"Titled "David Shrigley: Exhibition of Old Rope," the solo show opened on Thursday in London. The artist, who is known for his overtly simple paintings branded with even simpler logical fallacies, is the art world king of one-liners. And this show is just that: "a pile of old rope." The work will set you back £1 million ($1.3 million), which is a snip compared to the $6.2 million paid for Mauricio Cattelan's readymade duct-taped banana last fall in New York."
"Shrigley spent months searching the UK for cast-off rope, much of which was destined for the landfill. A lot of it had a maritime use "from thick cruise ship mooring lines, to slim cords on marker buoys, long lines and crab and lobster pots," the exhibition text reads. "Other have been salvaged from climbing schools, tree surgeons, offshore wind farms, scaffolders and window cleaning firms.""
""It's also hard to recycle, so there's a lot of it lying around," Shrigley explained in the exhibition notes. "I thought: what if I turn that into a literal exhibition of old rope. And then say, yes, this is art, and yes, you can buy it for £1 million. The work exists because I'm interested in the value people place on art, and the idiom gave me an excuse to explore that. I think £1 million is a fair price, partly because of the idea and partly because it is quite a lot of rope.""
David Shrigley installed ten tons of discarded rope heaped on the Stephen Friedman Gallery floor as a conceptual installation titled "David Shrigley: Exhibition of Old Rope." The installation is offered for £1 million, inviting direct comparison with high-profile readymades. The rope was collected across the UK from maritime sources, climbing schools, tree surgeons, offshore wind farms, scaffolders and window-cleaning firms, much of it destined for landfill. The work literalizes the idiom that old rope has no use and probes the value people place on art by converting cast-off material into a priced, sellable object.
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