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Spuds Moyogi
I ran across this article in "The New Yorker" magazine from a couple of days ago. It's very weird. Artist apparently uses live bonsai and bronze sculpture to construct compositions (that apparently go for $5,000-$100,000). The "bonsai guys won't talk to me" stuff he spouts seems to be bullshit and he offers no proof, just says he's offered to work for $20 an hour to clean up, sent goodies to Jim Doyle and taken Ryan Neal's Zoom class..
These are the best photos of his work I can find online--
Then there's this :
"All these trees are replaceable,” he continued. “So if this piece is sixteen thousand dollars, if you bought the work and the tree didn’t survive I would send you three or four different trees and you could pick one and we would come and reinstall the tree.”
Uh, thanks?
The Bernini of Bonsai
Benjamin Keating tours an exhibition of his sculptures, which combine bronzework with tiny trees, and recounts how he found an in with a secretive bonsai guy by bribing him with tomato sauce and fresh pasta.
www.newyorker.com
These are the best photos of his work I can find online--
Tripoli Gallery | Benjamin Keating
tripoligallery.com
Then there's this :
"All these trees are replaceable,” he continued. “So if this piece is sixteen thousand dollars, if you bought the work and the tree didn’t survive I would send you three or four different trees and you could pick one and we would come and reinstall the tree.”
Uh, thanks?