love thy neighbor: Who is Mr. Martin Creed?

"I don't know what art is"

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"I wouldn't call myself an artist"

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Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England, and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied art at the Slade School of Art at University College London from 1986 to 1990.

Since 1987, Creed has numbered each of his works, and most of his titles are deadpan and descriptive. Work No. 79: some Blu-tack kneaded, rolled into a ball and depressed against a wall (1993), for example, is just what it sounds like, as is Work No. 88, a sheet of A4 paper crumpled into a ball (1994).

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One of Creed's best known works is Work No. 200, half the air in a given space (1998), which is a room half-filled with balloons.

Creed is perhaps best known for his submission for the 2001 Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery, Work No. 227, the lights going on and off, which won that year's prize. The artwork presented was an empty room in which the lights periodically switched on and off (frequency five seconds on/five seconds off). As so often with the Turner Prize, this created a great deal of press attention, most of it questioning whether something as minimalist as this could be considered art at all. His work has often excited controversy: a visitor threw eggs at the walls of Creed's empty room as a protest against the prize, declaring that Creed's presentations were not real art and that "painting is in danger of becoming an extinct skill in this country".

Ironically, in recent years Creed has been exhibiting paintings in nearly every exhibition he has done. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Creed)

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Martin Creed: DIE – world premiere videoWatch two bared souls come together for a joyful jiggling encounter in DIE, an exclusive video created by director Josh Appignanesi for Turner prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Creed and his band release their debut album, Love to You, on 2 July 2012

• Warning: this video contains scenes of nudity that some viewers may find offensiv

video http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/may/30/martin-creed-die-world-premiere-exclusive-video

Кто такой мистер Мартин Крид?

"Я бы не назвал себя художником" и "Я не знаю, что такое искусство" – это его любимые высказывания.

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Мартин Крид родился в Вейкфилде, Англия, и вырос в Глазго, Шотландия.

Обучался в Школе искусств Слейд в Университетском колледже Лондона с 1986 по 1990 год.

Названия его работ носят описательный характер, работа №1, работа №235 и т.п. да и немудрено, ведь количество работ и выставок просто зашкаливает.

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В 2001 году Крид получает премию Тернера и, как это часто бывает - привлекает внимание прессы, многие сомневаются, как то, что создает Крид можно считать искусством.

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Его протеворечивые работы возбуждают скандалы - посетитель забросал яйцами стены пустой комнаты Крида в знак протеста против премии, заявив, что презентация не была настоящим искусством, и что - "…живопись находится в опасности и может стать вымершим мастерством в этой стране".

Несмотря на это в каждой выставке Крида неизменно присутствует живопись.