Whip out your tiny violins for artist Sebastian Errazuriz, who this week at Art Basel debuted a collection of women’s shoes inspired by 12 women who, at one time or another, gave him boners. Each boner shoe has its own accompanying story, like an American Girl doll except every story is ultimately about a whiny guy having a sex and then being like ugh, this loser who had sex with me! Real groundbreaking stuff.
For the uninitiated, Art Basel is an annual event in Miami Beach where the world’s Insufferables gather to mingle and congratulate each other for being very, very rich and spend $PUBLIC UNIVERSITY TUITION on pieces of contemporary art that definitely proves to people who visit their houses that they bought art one time. Look! A giant hat! Look! Mad Morley Safer in a glass box!
Anyway, this year’s show featured an offering by Errazuriz, who, with the help of several designers, his hurt feelings, and nude photos he snapped of his ex girlfriends, made “12 Shoes For 12 Lovers,” which he revealed one by one on a Tumblr dedicated to the project over the last week or so. To his credit (or maybe I should give half credit to the people who actually put the shoes together), some of the designs are kind of lovely. But the project’s website features nude images of women which Errazuriz admits didn’t necessarily give him permission to use images of their bodies in the promotion of his artwork (the artist defends his choice to include the images by saying that no faces are shown). And— strikes two and three — the descriptions accompanying the shoes, which ostensibly were written by Errazuriz, are a hot mess. Maybe he should have hired a word designer to do the actual work for him.
Here’s a sampling of the exhibit, which I’m calling “Exit Through The Payless.”
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