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"The man destroyed the large blue and white Porcelain Cube at a busy private opening for the exhibition “Who am I?” at Palazzo Fava in Bologna on the evening of September 21. Local police arrested a 57-year-old Czech man who has been identified in Italian media as Vaclav Pisvejc, a provocateur and self-proclaimed artist known for targeting important works of art."

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What it looked like before it was destroyed:

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Am i just poor peasant who can't understand art OR that sculpture looks like bunch of fancy PVC pipe glued together ?

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

It's using old techniques from Chinese history and applying them in a new way. Ai had to experiment and go through a lot of failure to produce such a different object. I don't think the cube wireframe was important, just the old method being used to make a modern art piece.

I like the idea of reinvigorating ancient crafting techniques by making modern art. I'm not exactly an art guy so I don't know if it's a unique idea but it made me think so I like it.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's made out of extremely delicate porcelain.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Could've made it cheaper using PVC.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

LOL, ... and it also wouldn't break as easily!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 1 day ago

I saw that piece with my wife and just told her someone broke it and her reaction was "wait, that was actual ceramic? I always tough it was PVC"

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

It's modern art most of it aimed at a moral.

As a guess I'm going to assume the point is that it's a fragile extremely delicate vase with literally no purpose as a vase.

You can't put anything in it or on it, it's vapid and empty like.... Art.

I'm gunna guess this is collaborative in some way between the two.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's a cube but for grandma's.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Damn, I saw that piece in Rio de Janeiro years ago. The banner on my profile if from that same exposition. There were also other things made of ceramic like a teddy bear and a security camera. Iirc, one of the pieces was a pendrive with a backup of wikileaks.