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10 works of art I do NOT want to get for my birthday.

Are you ready?
Here we go.

1. A mountain of candy on the floor.
By Esvin Alarcón exhibited at ARCO (Sold for 5.000€). Here

2. A glass with a little water.
By Wilfredo Prieto. Also at ARCO (Sold for 20.000€). Here

3. A dancer doing a striptease. 
Again at ARCO. By Yann Leto. Here

4. A urinal turned upside down.
By Marcel Duchamp. It is in all Art History books in high schools and universities. Here

5. A banana stuck to the wall.
By Mauricio Catelan (Sold for 6.000.000€). Here

6. A lady who lets herself do things.
From Marina Abramovic. It was auctioned in 2023 but it is not clear to me what was being sold 😂 (Estimated value between 150,000 and 200,000). Here y Here

7. "Nothingness", which consists of nothing. 
That is, you buy it, you get a certificate of the work and what you hang at home is nothing. It is by Salvatore Garau (Sold for 15.000€). Here

8. An unmade bed with used Kleenex and condoms..
By Tracey Emin (Sold for 4.000.000€) Here

9. The corpse of a shark suspended in formaldehyde and another work that is the same but with a cow.
From Damien Hirts (Sold for 8 and 10 million). Here y Here

10. A dead dog in a showcase.
 (it's not a sculpture, it's a real dog) exhibited at MACBA (Barcelona). By José Antonio Hernández-Díez. Here


How do you stay?
Incredible, isn't it?

(Such is the panorama of the "Art that we have had to live" and that is why I do not work with galleries, nor will you ever see me at ARCO).

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Marroiak is a Valencian artist born on the island of Tenerife, specialized in travel and landscape illustration although he also develops projects related to crafts and permaculture. Read more

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