Z-Rok is a graffiti artist and style writer since 1983 – and the portrait feature of the year with a Denim Jacket by hamansutra.
Guest director for new commissions for my long-standing graffiti colleague from Munich, Z-Rok. hamansutra has known Z-Rok since the late 1980s. I visited him in his studio and followed him while they worked, to feature him for my Denim Line. When I have the funds, I plan to invest in them and create a story around them to expand my art collection. Buy artworks while the artist’s still alive! Once they’re dead they don’t get the benefit – but investors and dealers suddenly crawl out of the woodwork, coughing up vastly inflated sums for the works. Artists need the money while they’re alive. Debt weights heavy on an artist’s soul. No money for food? Welcome to the mass grave. When artists are the target of aggressive lectures from cliched officialdom, they react by rebelling, which is often reflected in their art. Bureaucracy may have its uses and its place, but artists see bureaucrats as nothing more than enemies of humanity. All part of government strategy; for the people that carry it out, it’s the great extinguisher of every spark of life’s joy. The legal mafia that is government has managed to brainwash those people into practising state sanctioned terrorism with letters, house visits and fines. Want to know why some artists never broke big? It’s because you – yes, you – never bought their works. If I invest in the music industry as a DJ with a 30-year career, the success of the artists I play is just as much down to my input as an individual. I’m the marketing ambassador that helps to sell their music when I play it in clubs. Shazam to the left, shazam to the right! But the other side of that is the responsibility I feel when artists crash and burn, or fall prey to a cocktail of drugs. If you don’t invest in them, you share the responsibility for their downfall. Sure, there are artists that deserve more, and the ones who can’t handle a quick rise to fame. When banks stop paying interest, investors suddenly start shelling out vast sums for art with the aim of selling it on later at a profit. Nothing to see here. Everyone plays along. Once that happens, the system has succeeded in turning art into an asset, no more than a stock holding. The investors don’t care because they have no idea about art, except as a thing where millionaires can invest millions and end up as billionaires. Such high-flying hype, and such a steep, steep fall. May all you ignorant, arrogant, unscrupulous, inhuman, egoistical Scrooge McDuck capitalists rot in hell.
LINKS
Z-ROK.DE
© 100% hamansutra
Z-Rok is a graffiti artist and style writer since 1983 – and the portrait feature of the year with a Denim Jacket by hamansutra.
Guest director for new commissions for my long-standing graffiti colleague from Munich, Z-Rok. hamansutra has known Z-Rok since the late 1980s. I visited him in his studio and followed him while they worked, to feature him for my Denim Line. When I have the funds, I plan to invest in them and create a story around them to expand my art collection. Buy artworks while the artist’s still alive! Once they’re dead they don’t get the benefit – but investors and dealers suddenly crawl out of the woodwork, coughing up vastly inflated sums for the works. Artists need the money while they’re alive. Debt weights heavy on an artist’s soul. No money for food? Welcome to the mass grave. When artists are the target of aggressive lectures from cliched officialdom, they react by rebelling, which is often reflected in their art. Bureaucracy may have its uses and its place, but artists see bureaucrats as nothing more than enemies of humanity. All part of government strategy; for the people that carry it out, it’s the great extinguisher of every spark of life’s joy. The legal mafia that is government has managed to brainwash those people into practising state sanctioned terrorism with letters, house visits and fines. Want to know why some artists never broke big? It’s because you – yes, you – never bought their works. If I invest in the music industry as a DJ with a 30-year career, the success of the artists I play is just as much down to my input as an individual. I’m the marketing ambassador that helps to sell their music when I play it in clubs. Shazam to the left, shazam to the right! But the other side of that is the responsibility I feel when artists crash and burn, or fall prey to a cocktail of drugs. If you don’t invest in them, you share the responsibility for their downfall. Sure, there are artists that deserve more, and the ones who can’t handle a quick rise to fame. When banks stop paying interest, investors suddenly start shelling out vast sums for art with the aim of selling it on later at a profit. Nothing to see here. Everyone plays along. Once that happens, the system has succeeded in turning art into an asset, no more than a stock holding. The investors don’t care because they have no idea about art, except as a thing where millionaires can invest millions and end up as billionaires. Such high-flying hype, and such a steep, steep fall. May all you ignorant, arrogant, unscrupulous, inhuman, egoistical Scrooge McDuck capitalists rot in hell.
LINKS
Z-ROK.DE
© 100% hamansutra
BLUE BLOODED PORTFOLIO
This new episode of Blue Blooded Portfolio is with Haman Alimardani, founder of Hamansutra and many more. By denimhunters.com
„Running the risk of sounding a little bit corny and pretentious here, our favourite thing about denim, really, is the people!“
Photography
oddhunt.com
This new episode of Blue Blooded Portfolio is with Haman Alimardani, founder of Hamansutra and many more. By denimhunters.com
„Running the risk of sounding a little bit corny and pretentious here, our favourite thing about denim, really, is the people!“
Photography
oddhunt.com
