Talk:Martin Creed

This is the Hendricks protest of the Turner Prize, Martin Creed's win, and abuses of modern art.

On January 8, 2002 at 1:30-1:40 pm, artist Tom Hendricks challenged the Turner Prize, and all abuses of modern art by The End of Modern Art Conceptual Art Event of 1/08/02. It created a conceptual art event that attacked the abuses of conceptual art, suggested a possible end of modern art, and suggested new directions for art. As Hendricks tells it, he was walking home from a fast food taco restaurant on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas Texas when it dawned on him how to protest the abuses of modern art. Specifically he would attack Martin Creed who won the annual Turner Prize that goes to the best art work from a British artist younger than 50. The prize was a check for $31,500 handed to Creed by pop star Madonna. Hendricks, "I worked hard to have some scope to my art: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, abstracts, and just about everything in between." In contrast Creed got the check for his exhibit of flashing light bulbs in an empty room. Previous works included a scrunched-up piece of paper and a ball of clay stuck to a wall. Hendricks, in his protests, suggests that modern art at its worst is 'consistently depressing, disjointed, lacking in technical skills, lacking in the ability to communicate, and seldom has scope.' He said in the manifesto about the event, " I would bring modern art to its end. I would suggest the ultimate, the ultimate in baffling minimalism. I would get the plastic check from Madonna. Where Creed had flashing lights in an empty room, I would imagine a gallery in my mind that would have no lights on at all! And that moment marked the end of modern art." Publishing history of The End Of Modern Art manifesto: first printed version was in the zine Musea #108, March 2002. It was also posted as 'The Last Minute of Modern Art' on artellawordsandart.com.Musea 02:42, 30 April 2006 (UTC) Musea 21:41, 25 May 2006 (UTC)