This is Marco Evaristti. Marco is an artist. He was born in Chile, but lives in Denmark and he’s a prick.
He kicked off his illustrious career in 1995 with these pieces called “Crash”
Painted with the blood of a car crash victim from Bangkok. Perhaps Thai car crash victims’ blood is cheaper, who knows.
In 2000 he gained notoriety for his creation “Helena”, which featured ten food processors containing live goldfish.
The display in Denmark, invited guests to turn on the blenders. You can see by the one on the right that mashed goldfish turn a pinkish colour.
His next major work, in 2004, entitled “Ice Cube Project”, was to paint an iceberg in Greenland red. "The Ice Cube Project" required three ice breakers, a twenty man crew and 780 gallons of red dye.
On January 13, 2007, Evaristti hosted a dinner party. The main meal was pasta that was topped with a meatball made with the artist's own fat, removed earlier in the year in a liposuction operation.
Evaristti took the fat and mixed it with ground beef to make these meatballs which were fried in oil and displayed in a gallery. He created 48 meatballs from his own fat and displayed 13 tins of them on a long table, in a replica of Christ’s last supper.
He says his work is about the sanctity of the body and an unhealthy modern obsession with food and weight loss.
“I want to show people that meatballs made with my fat are no more disgusting than the meatballs you buy in the supermarket,” he said.
He is pictured here with the canned meatballs, holding his next masterpiece...
Solid gold shit, decorated with diamonds! I bet you wish you could afford to have that beauty on your fireplace.
On June 8, 2007, Evaristti draped the peak of Mont Blanc in France with red fabric, along with a 20 foot pole with a flag reading "Pink State"
The artist was arrested during his attempt to climb the mountain. On the summit Evaristti placed a mailbox for applicants who wants to become citizens of Pink State. In order to become citizen applicants have to be kind towards nature and treat the surroundings with respect.
I don't know about you, but it looks orange to me.
One of his wheezes was to invite Copenhagen drug addicts to paint using cocaine, heroin and blood contaminated with the AIDS virus. His intention was to "awaken consciences and slam a society that treated drug users as rubbish".
Evaristti has had to keep his Copenhagen address secret for the last ten years due to threats from those offended by his work....no wonder.
Finally. If you are one of those old men who still play with your train set and you've got loads of money, then this is for you. A solid gold diamond encrusted scale model of Auschwitz concentration camp. Like I said at the beginning, Marco is a prick.
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