{"id":6667,"date":"2014-06-03T10:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T08:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2020-03-27T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:02:56","slug":"andres-serrano-provokes-with-photos-of-homeless-in-nycs-subway-but-his-art-is-poor-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/03\/andres-serrano-provokes-with-photos-of-homeless-in-nycs-subway-but-his-art-is-poor-game\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC: Andres Serrano works with homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in 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src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/slide_349509_3740301_free.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6671\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6671'>\n\t\t\t\tAndres Serrano, Residents of New York, 2014.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/2014\/06\/03\/andres-serrano-provokes-with-photos-of-homeless-in-nycs-subway-but-his-art-is-poor-game\/245addab-ff5f-4167-8406-dba2d91cbb42\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/CFA-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/245addab-ff5f-4167-8406-dba2d91cbb42.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6672\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd 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sly provocation conceived by an artist who will be remembered as the one who has put a crucifix into a glass of piss (Piss Christ, 1989). Of course it is both things at the same time: displaying photos of Manhattan&#8217;s homeless in a down-town subway station will certainly increase people&#8217;s awareness about this social problem by shocking them with a photographic interpretation of that problem.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore we would prefer to remember what the Jesuit priest Andrea Dall&#8217;Asta \u2013 art historian and director of the Centro Culturale San Fedele in Milan \u2013 told us about the education to become a Jesuit, which includes a pilgrimage experience of just begging. Or indeed the project \u201cIl mendicante elettronico\u201d by photographer Franco Vaccari (The electronic panhandler, 1973): when a real pan-handler asks money showing his pan \u2013 a cap in this case \u2013 people don&#8217;t look at him and pass by. But if the same cap is shown in a TV screen they stop and pay attention. Moreover, how many journalists \u201cturned into\u201d homeless for a certain period of time to make their report more effective? Once again, the problem with Serrano lies not in the provocation, but indeed in the weakness of his language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York&#8217;s subway artist Andres Serrano provokes with big photos of homeless people; but it&#8217;s a poor game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1796],"tags":[1732,1733],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mapping-the-artscape","tag-andres-serrano","tag-franco-vaccari"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conceptualfinearts.com\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}