Runner sprinting through gallery is "art"
01 07 08 - 10:45 A runner will sprint through a gallery every 30 seconds for the next four months in the latest art installation by artist Martin Creed.The installation, called "Work No. 850", is sponsored by Sotheby's and goes on show on Tuesday in the 86-metre neoclassical sculpture galleries of Tate Britain.
Creed, who won the coveted Turner Prize in 2001 with an installation that was a light bulb going on and off in an empty room, explained in a statement: "I like running."
"Running is the opposite of being still. If you think about death as being completely still and movement as a sign of life, then the fastest movement possible is the biggest sign of life. So then running fast is like the exact opposite of death: it's an example of aliveness."
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[ This is a mockery. Meanwhile there are talented painters on the level of the old masters, whose work gets nowhere thanks to the cabal of art critics who choose what will be popular. ]
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