THE QUEST FOR EASY FAME AND THE QUALITY FALL

 Quantity over quality is a conundrum when it comes to the death arena of the emerging art scene and the struggle to prevail. 

But that's a tad dramatic isn't it?

It all goes down to one's own goals and aesthetic principles. However the rising number of people buying into the art “rockstar” archetype built through the past years overflows the limited gallery ecosystem. Those art gangs that rose to prominence in the big art centers (especially 20+ years after) create a need for speed and a  false perception of the art ladder.

Everyone forgets that this was an exemption to the norm back then - bold degenerates that had nothing to lose. As a consequence this breeds a sub par normality based around payment models, with content or aesthetics no longer the primary factors to drive creative trends. 

Shit list: The ecosystem of art role players. Art middle men (“consultants” and other 

entrepreneurial business wanker types LARPING as curators and whatnot) and upper middle class hobby artistes, setting the tone of cultural scenes.

A farcical commercial exchange defining and dictating creative opportunities.

There is a solidarity here, in betwixt streams of revenue and the monetisation of ...vanity?  

Thirst traps feed a capitalist system that can only be advantaged from this race and all hail the ‘the pay to display’ system. 

An old model that never goes down in history aiming to hit hungry creatives that crave for an effortless show in the big ass metropoli of art (See LDN or The big apple). Succor becomes exploitation. As too many shows in such a city represent the stardom of a big ballz career but this is just a perception and not necessarily the reality. However this is also a class game. THOSE FROM THE DREADED WORD PRIVILEGE, with a huge wallet and an often mediocre practice view vanity galleries as SURE FIRE way to enter the gallery system FUN FARE. But this might work as well for some looking to enhance their name and career perception in limited social circles-  to purchase some WOW factor.

In the end those in the “Know”, (the “you know who’s”), know well enough to spot what is good and what is not…. Those who paid to have their ego stroked. 

Paying high fees is not your only option. It's not even a quick cut to success. In the end in the visual culture what is important is aesthetics and a good concept. But this takes time and effort. It's really fun how circles of normies form and shows are organised based on the - who had the biggest dick-conversations. Bloated boring art scenes that are existing in paradox: by economic exclusivity and overabundance of these paid “opportunities". The repetitive mediocre and -above all- self referential art scenes are constantly choking genuine innovation like a disease.