Re: Sylvester Stallone and the art of Anselm Kiefer

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On Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 4:12:40 AM UTC-5, Marc S wrote:
> German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung interviews Stallone:
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> SZ: Is it true that a picture by Anselm Kiefer kind of de-materialised in your home?
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> Stallone: I paid $1.7 million for it! There was straw on it. Kiefer had glued on the straw. At home, I start thinking: shit, what's that under the picture? Straws. Every day another one. I call the guy from the gallery and say "The Kiefer's moulting." Says the gallery owner "Mr. Stallone, that's normal, the picture's in the process of development, the picture's alive." I thought I'd go crazy. $1.7 million!
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> SZ: And then?
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> Stallone: I glued the straw back on.
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> SZ: You didn't.
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> Stallone: Yes. Every day I saw another straw on the floor, picked it up, glued it right back on. I just didn't get it.

Marcel Duchamp would be delighted.

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And I don't mean amused at the cost to Stallone's reputation and impact on the market value of the Kiefer piece. If the painting is alive then Stallone became part of that life.