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A tipster sent in a link to this picture on Jskrybe's photo stream on Flickr. Below it, he asks: "I know this is based on a work by the British conceptual artist Martin Creed, but why is it here in the West Village (corner of Leroy and Greenwich)? Is it authorized? A copy? What gives?" A little Googling reveals that the work is genuine-- but we still don't understand it. We did the math, and the whole world plus the work DEFINITELY equals the work plus the whole world! Ten points off for failing to balance the right side of the equation. [Related: the original work at London's Tate Gallery.]
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"Conceptual art" = BS
No matter what you add to the whole of the world, it still is the whole of the world, which begs the question - "why work"?
Yeah, I deserve a slap for that.
http://www.gavinbrown.biz/gallery.html
I live a block away from that building, and every day as I get home from class, I find myself utterly frustrated trying to figure out what that means. Although you didn't help me much, thanks for posting it!
"beg the question" is not the same as "prompt" the question -- it is a logical fallacy that already assumes the very point that must be proven
From Wikipedia:
We have previously mentioned that the universe may be considered an isolated system. As such, it may be subject to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, so that its total entropy is constantly increasing. It has been speculated that the universe is fated to a heat death in which all the energy ends up as a homogeneous distribution of thermal energy, so that no more work can be extracted from any source.
So a simple interpretations may be that as a closed system, the work does not add to the whole world mix, it just changes its state.
Perhaps the more doom filled interpretation, is that by adding to the body of works, the artist is bringing the world closer to its eventual destruction.
I personally prefer the thought, the the facade on the Tate wasn't wide enough to complete the equation.
Infinity + 10 = Infinity
Infinity + Work = Infinity
This equation implies "the work" = 0. Sounds like permanent vacation to me. I like the way he thinks.
Wow, those last two sentences make it so obvious that Jake Dobkin used to be a science teacher...
it's Gavin Brown's Gallery
Art?
Methinks not.
Helvetica signage?
Yes.