Do you want to keep four on the floor? Yeah, okay, okay. Welcome back. You know what I said? That's not what I was saying. Thank you, everyone. It's been a while. It's been a while. We can start on that. It's been a while. It's been a while. We're good. Hey everybody and welcome back to another episode of Cats. Contemporary Art Show. Art Talk Show. Contemporary C.A. Oh yeah, contemporary Art Talk Show. Episode number four. Today we will be talking about the hottest contemporary art work in New York, L.A. People were blogging and tweeting before that maybe we weren't critiquing actually the most contemporary work we could. So we're going to fix that. So let's jump right in. We're not going to mention the, for the sake of time, we're not going to mention the artist names or the titles. They said them, of course, once the episode comes alive to you, but we're just going to jump right into these. Well, they'll be floating behind us and you'll see, they'll be stationary, but they'll be behind us. They won't be floating because they'll be stationary behind us. Well, the name and the date and the media will scroll across. It won't scroll across. It'll also be stationary. Alright, let's get going. We're going to get through four images so we want to kind of hustle. Okay, so number one. This one's okay. It doesn't, you know, it's kind of simple, but there's, you know, there's a... It's a garbage. Now, this depth to it, to an extent, you can kind of see there's some words to it. It's dumb. I can't tell if you're joking. No, I'm being dead serious. I'm not even kidding you. Like, I'm dead serious. I honestly think this is like just stupid. It's dumb. Yeah, boring. No, not even garbage. I could just boring. This looks like they're making repairs to the gallery. They put a piece of plastic up with some duct tape. And then when they hired the photographer, no one supervised the photographer. The photographer shot a picture, got the construction and somehow I landed. This should be called a contemporary. It should just be temporary. They're probably made $2 million off of this. It's temporary or... It's just temporary. But I don't want to waste our time or years time talking about this. So next up, we have a... What looks like a plywood and rotten banana and boards, board construction, sculpture. Obviously using warm fast food colors. Different fast food companies will use orange brown red. Because they actually feel really soothing and like, how are we hungry? I think it speaks to the banana industry. The death of the banana itself, the industry has evolved to the point where the bananas can no longer reproduce. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I think... I think... The banana... Pretty produced. They don't have something. I mean, I don't think bananas are no longer... I don't know, my friends. ...self-sustainable. Remember my parents referred to as penis as a purple banana? No, I don't. That was in the 80s. The industry has killed bananas now rely on the industry. If the industry is over, so are bananas. We've hybrid them to a point where they're just not what they originally were. And I don't think they can even breed naturally. I'm not kidding. Well, you can buy organic bananas, but they're really tiny. They're banana. I don't even know if that's true. I don't know if that's true. But also the flavor of a banana. That's not actually like... That's like a hybrid flavor. It's like a very distinct flavor. I think I'm a lot more mild. Yeah? I really don't know. I think somebody posted this one time online. I liked it. But also the jokes on all of this. This is actually a normal paint and cast aluminum. So this whole thing is not actually bananas. Now that is cool. Now that makes its piece from kind of cool to... It's pretty cool. It's the cool thing to do now is to take an item and turn it into something that is not... It's not. It's like an illusion piece. So you look at it and you go, wow, that's cool. And you go, what, what, what? And you look back and you know, this is not what I thought it was. This is not what I thought it was at all. It's cool. It makes it precious twice. Not sustainable. It's probably heard in our environment and I'll blast forever now. That's kind of cool. Now the next piece, honestly, it looks like garbage. Yeah. This is almost as comparable to the first piece personally I think. But I don't know. That's the same mind. You seem to kind of be more attached to it. But you know. Yeah. Yeah. So this artist is obviously making comparisons to contemporary art. Some people say contemporary art is garbage. So he was like, okay. Okay. Literally. Yeah. That's pretty funny. Jokes on you because I walked away with millions of dollars. What he's saying. So I like the color. I like the black. I know. I know. It looks like there's a theme here with these last three pieces specifically. And it goes, it's black. So you know, it's black is in. And fortunately I have a black shirt on. Black's always in. Thanks, Johnny Cash. Yeah. Thanks, Johnny Cash. I don't know. Can we move on to the next one or no? No, someone else said that. Morris said that. I wear a black on the outside. I don't know the Morris. It is black. It's how I feel when you're in. No. Okay. That's kind of dark. Yeah. No pun intended. Yeah, well. So this next piece is interesting. I think this is, there's a lesson to be learned in this next piece here. I speak for every gallery or museum preparator out there. Before you make your artwork for the gallery space. Yeah. You need to get the dimensions of the doorways. Yeah, measure it. Standard or laser door. 30, 34 and a half inches. Or calling out. Sometimes it's a bigger door, but you know, maybe check ahead. Also, if you, if the gallery's not on the first floor, you have to find out with a freight elevator. Yep. Dimensions are the weight restrictions and plan accordingly. Yeah. So if you're doing like an aluminum piece or something, while you might be in trouble. So maybe check with the gallery first. Yeah. That's a good art lesson. Yeah, it is. I hate artists out there. Check with the gallery before you install or before you ship your equipment. I mean, that can't be cheap shipping. And you don't want them to ship it back. This person didn't check in, obviously. But she persevered and one what like come hell or high water. She got her artwork to the gallery and got it in. And she installed it, you know, some way she's crumbled it up. And what's cool about this is I can't tell. Like this is kind of like optical illusion. I can't tell if that's a really small gallery or if that's a really big piece that was boyced to fit in a bigger gallery. I can't tell. I'm kidding. I think with that way. So it kind of like it's one of those things that if you look at it for a while, you can have your mind blown. Well, it's like where does the art begin and then it could just be a model. Maybe that's that. Maybe the whole gallery that we're looking at here is just now. Oh, no. I'm reading the dimensions are here. Whoa. Yeah. Interesting also that has a similar color scheme as the second piece that we looked at. So this orange and yellow. So if you guys wanted to show it a good gallery in New York, you just black black orange or yellow common themes. And possibly make it look like garbage or crumpled out for something. Let's go say that to recap. Cast your work in aluminum or bronze, but make it look like garbage or fabric. Number two, use Halloween colors that we learned today. Orange, yellow, black. You know, we're really interesting to do with this. Do your research or look at the dates here and see if there's a common thread. Is it around? Not cool? Is that why these are like this? It'd be fun to kind of see. Oh, well, this is a season. It's winter. So maybe people like black art more in the winter or something. I don't know. Number three, don't call the gallery staff ahead of time or go on their website to pre-plan. Because they don't want you to go. Make the work and then squeeze it through the door or make it fit. Make it fit people. It's all about bending the rules. It's all about bending the rules and bending your heart. Yeah, bending your crumpled it up. Okay, let's show. Let's show. Let's show.