Super Shark Sale
The news that yesterday evening at Sotheby's a rich twit threw away £9.6m ($17.2m) on Moneybags Hirst's The Kingdom - a tiger shark in formaldehyde - has prompted Stuckism International to offer the original Eddie Saunders' shark (1989) for the bargain price of £1m (title link). Now hold on, guys. Don't go overboard trying to hook a big daft one. The Daily Mail ordered a shark of its own, to establish the true cost. Staff paid £400 for a properly stuffed shark from a London taxidermist - a shark, like Eddie's, that won't rot - and £150 for a tank to be delivered. Total cost: £550. Note that Charles Saatchi sold his Hirst shark - commissioned for £50,000 - for £6.5m before the rot became obvious (CLICK). So, anyone who pays £9.6m for a carcass that will rot in a few years time shouldn't be let out without an attendant shrink (CLICK). I blame Care in the Community.
posted by Unknown @ 16.9.08
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Yeh, but the taxidermist just supplies a shark, whereas the Stuckists are artists, so what they do is art, which in this case is an artwork consisting of a dead shark and titled "A Dead Shark Isn't Art".
Hi, Charles
Are you suggesting that stuffing sharks isn't an art form? That's fighting talk! The thing is, Moneybags doesn't stuff his sharks. He isn't a taxidermist. And he has a team of people to fill his tanks with preservative that just delays the inevitable by a few years.
I still haven't figured out what he does, except sell the damn things. Maybe he signs the shark somewhere. Better still, when the shark finally decays, a balloon emerges from its rear with a smiley face of Moneybags and the message "Pop!"
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