An excerpt: It talks about young artists and the internet via the conversation between older figures in the artistic sphere.
Some more from the same book:
Christina Bechtier
Was it then that you began doing art?
Hedi Slimane
I guess I never started ‘doing’ art. Art always sounds very presumptuous and awkward. It is still this dodgy terminology. From being an ‘artist’ to ‘doing art’. When does someone become an artist? Do you learn art? Are you born an artist? Showing art in a gallery does that define you as an artist? Is a bad artist still an artist? Is there any bad or good art? It’s all very confusing.
Thomas Demand
My girlfriend is an art critic. On a regular basis she sees a show and says “He is not an artist.” I think you cannot say that. Everybody who appears in that field is an artist, even if he is a bad artist. How you define that is a different story.
Peter Saville
And whose opinion? ‘Artist’ is another one of those labels now.
Hedi Slimane
A major one.
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