Post #13841 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Nov 15, 2002 11:04 AM

The impediment this time is the craftmanship itself. What you are most aware of in this show is the sheer skill of the artists, their ability to manufacture fakes, to replicate the surface characteristics of priceless artefacts right down to the chisel-mark.

So the reviewer seems to think the Chapmans did the carving, polychroming and aging themselves...wonder if there is a way to find out conclusively. I guess the artists don't leave an e-mail so people can ask them questions they don't wanna answer.

Is there a catalog? Wonder if they know my book, and what Pablo said in it
"...And over a century later, primitive art collector Pablo Picasso, who was a thrifty flea market shopper, proclaimed:

“You don’t need the masterpiece to get the idea. The concept or component of a style is entirely accessible in second-rate examples and even fakes”

And yes Mark, there is a Tiki McDonalds in Ohio....someone say where, I forgot in which Tiki News it was portrayed, and who went on the tour of it during the Kahiki closing weekend.