Art of Beer Cans – The Weird Side of the Internet
Written by Staff on October 16, 2024
Art of Beer Cans – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
I’m sure you’ve hears of the banana taped to the wall in a museum that was called “high art” and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I could tell you more about it, but I have as much energy to look it up as the artist had in coming up with such a brilliant idea. But yeah, banana, tape, you get it. Can I see the art in this? Yes. It could be a satirical statement on how they’ll let anything through the gate if you call it art, or it could be a statement on how art is the intent alone, not the execution. But the ultimate statement is that a hungry student pulled the banana off the wall and ate it.
That’s where this story comes into play. “All The Good Times We Spent Together” by French artist Alexandre Lavet is a work of art, and it actually is a work of art. It’s two beer cans, meticulously painted in acrylics, put together. It was held in the LAM museum in Lisse, western Netherlands. This museum is known for having exhibits in unexpected places, and this particular two-beer exhibit was put on a lift (elevator for we Yanks.) And two empty looking beers on a lift attracted one admirer, a custodian who promptly threw them out.
The custodian was unfired. He was new. And the exhibit was placed somewhere less “throwoutable.”
I’m not much on modern out, unless you count my office, which I have entitled “Busy Mind.” My artwork in in motion, becoming more messy each day. Someday, I’ll charge people to tunnel in, and allow them to take souvenir coffee-cups.
Can anything be art? Is everything art? If everything is art, then art doesn’t really have a meaning, right? It’s like treating yourself to Starbucks after combing your hair and calling it ‘self-care.’ I get, and am in favor, or democratizing creativity, but at some point, the only people who are going to recognize a dog-turd as art are going to also recognize the Emperor’s wardrobe. Or lions in the clouds. And dare they not declare a thing ‘not art,’ not even the furry police car crayon sketch of a five year-old.
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