Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70 000


    Picture by Guzelian GUZELIAN: SAY BANANAS! COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY A MONKEY GO UNDER THE HAMMER. A collection of one-of-a-kind photographs is set to go under the hammer - so unique because the set was taken by a CHIMPANZEE. Mikki the monkey's snapshots of Moscow's Red Square, Russia, show a blurry picture of life through an animal's eyes, to form the exhibition Our Moscow through the Eyes of Mikki. Contemporary artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two of the founding members of Moscow Conceptualism of the 1970s, discovered chimpanzee Mikki as a popular performer at the Moscow Circus. They taught the 15-year-old chimpanzee how to take photos with a Polaroid, and then by a regular analog and an antique camera. Mikki's take on the world presents a new perspective akin to experimental photography and reference millions of photos taken by tourists on a daily basis. The pictures, which will be sold at Sotheby's Auction House, London, on June 5, are expected to fetch between £50,000 - £70,000.


    [As is probably stated somewhere in the theory of infinity, if you give an infinite amount of monkeys an infinite number of old-timey Polaroid cameras, one will eventually take [artistic] blurry photos of historical sites in Moscow which will then be auctioned at Sotheby's for an estimated $75,000 – $100,000. Fortunately for every simian art fan with a spare $100k, we are currently living in the very universe in which that concept is reality. Eighteen photographs by – and of – Mikki The Chimpanzee are going to auction on June 5, 2013.

    According to Hyperallergic: [They include both Mikki’s clarity-challenged captures of Moscow’s Red Square and other city sights, as well as documentation of Mikki learning to use a polaroid, analogue, and antique large-format camera with Russian-born American conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid].

    Mikki, who was rescued from the circus by Komar and Melamid, is a visionary monkey. According to Suad Garayeva, the curator of contemporary art at Sotheby’s, he does actually understand what the hell is going on. As a matter of fact, after seeing his prints he [got quite excited with the results] and probably starting jumping around and hooting in a typical monkey fashion. Let's examine some of Mikki's photographs and try to discern the meaning of each:


    Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70,000




    Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70,000


    This one is pretty clearly an interrogation of religion and the state. With his dislocated framing and unfocused approach, the chimp has turned one of the most recognizable religious symbols in human history into a fuzzy abstraction. Haunting.




    Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70,000


    In this one he is likely saying, [I'm a monkey and I don't know how to operate a camera]. Genius]. – Callie Beusman via Jezebel.com. (Photos by Guzelian/Mikki)


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Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70 000


Picture by Guzelian GUZELIAN: SAY BANANAS! COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY A MONKEY GO UNDER THE HAMMER. A collection of one-of-a-kind photographs is set to go under the hammer - so unique because the set was taken by a CHIMPANZEE. Mikki the monkey's snapshots of Moscow's Red Square, Russia, show a blurry picture of life through an animal's eyes, to form the exhibition Our Moscow through the Eyes of Mikki. Contemporary artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two of the founding members of Moscow Conceptualism of the 1970s, discovered chimpanzee Mikki as a popular performer at the Moscow Circus. They taught the 15-year-old chimpanzee how to take photos with a Polaroid, and then by a regular analog and an antique camera. Mikki's take on the world presents a new perspective akin to experimental photography and reference millions of photos taken by tourists on a daily basis. The pictures, which will be sold at Sotheby's Auction House, London, on June 5, are expected to fetch between £50,000 - £70,000.


[As is probably stated somewhere in the theory of infinity, if you give an infinite amount of monkeys an infinite number of old-timey Polaroid cameras, one will eventually take [artistic] blurry photos of historical sites in Moscow which will then be auctioned at Sotheby's for an estimated $75,000 – $100,000. Fortunately for every simian art fan with a spare $100k, we are currently living in the very universe in which that concept is reality. Eighteen photographs by – and of – Mikki The Chimpanzee are going to auction on June 5, 2013.

According to Hyperallergic: [They include both Mikki’s clarity-challenged captures of Moscow’s Red Square and other city sights, as well as documentation of Mikki learning to use a polaroid, analogue, and antique large-format camera with Russian-born American conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid].

Mikki, who was rescued from the circus by Komar and Melamid, is a visionary monkey. According to Suad Garayeva, the curator of contemporary art at Sotheby’s, he does actually understand what the hell is going on. As a matter of fact, after seeing his prints he [got quite excited with the results] and probably starting jumping around and hooting in a typical monkey fashion. Let's examine some of Mikki's photographs and try to discern the meaning of each:


Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70,000




Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70,000


This one is pretty clearly an interrogation of religion and the state. With his dislocated framing and unfocused approach, the chimp has turned one of the most recognizable religious symbols in human history into a fuzzy abstraction. Haunting.




Chimpanzee’s Fuzzy Photographs Set to Sell for up to £70,000


In this one he is likely saying, [I'm a monkey and I don't know how to operate a camera]. Genius]. – Callie Beusman via Jezebel.com. (Photos by Guzelian/Mikki)


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