Artist Michael Tompert takes Apple’s products and wrecks them with blowtorches, sledgehammers, handsaws and handguns. “It’s an alternate viewpoint,” explained Tompert at a preview of his first gallery show, which opens in San Francisco today. “They’re beautiful inside. They’re beautiful when you open them up.”
Coming from an art background myself, I can respect chronicling and preserving contemporary objects in one’s artwork. I, after all, have one piece that showcases a number of internal VCR parts within the finished artwork. However, I used the items to stress the subject of the artwork, and used the pieces, cleaned and polished, as embellishments attached to the surface of art.
But destroying Apple products to photograph them for large scale poster-like images, is that art? I guess I am in “awe” of taking pricey fully-functioning Apple products and destroying them in the bargain. My VCR was already “dead,” I didn’t kill it. If anything I gave it a second life. Apps for iPads exists to enhance your iPads, this is quite the opposite.
So what do you think? Is it art? Do you like it? Would you buy it?
On the “flip side” I am glad to hear “the most difficult product to obliterate was the iPad -- "it's practically indestructible!"
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