The Impish Art Collective MSCHF Has Cut Up a Damien Hirst and Been Sued by Nike. Can It Win Over the Art World With Its First Blue-Chip Gallery Show?
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- 31 Oct 2022
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Included in the group’s Perrotin exhibition will be a marble sculpture of J-Lo and a performance piece involving rapper 24KGoldn.
At MSCHF’s upcoming exhibition at Perrotin—the art collective’s first show at a commercial art gallery—you can literally trade a gun for an artwork.
The exchange is part of a project called Guns 2 Swords, an expansion of a previous initiative for which MSCHF bought guns from people and forged them into the shape of the ancient weapon.
Perrotin is on board: the gallery has agreed to accept firearms as a form of payment for this particular body of work. (Arrangements need to be made in advance; visitors are not allowed to bring guns into the gallery.)
Guns 2 Swords is just one of many cooky projects that MSCHF, whose members are masters of wringing profundity from provocation, have cooked up for their exhibition, “No More Tears, I’m Lovin’ It.”
The group plans to convert the gallery into a kind of derelict strip mall, with each “store” dedicated to a discrete body of work. Read More...
