Artists’ Best Friends is an appropriation and reinterpretation of Marilyn Monroe’s musical hit “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from 1953. Outfitted in a gender queer and bling-bling fashion, annette hollywood performs the song with a new text and parodies gender stagings and role attributions. In a humorous and self-ironic way, the song also deals with the ambivalence of financial success and the artistic recognition of artistic creation. The artist fans herself with the invitation card marked as a solo show, but this reveals at the same time the site of the exhibition: the Out Off Money Space.
Artists' Best Friends
Artists were bred to die for art they delight in starving cruel, but I prefer art life that lives and gives expensive jewels. Honor and fame may be quite continental but diamonds are artists’ best friends. A show may be grand but it won‘t pay the rental on your lofty flat, or help you at the automat. Men get sold as girls grow old and we all lose our charms in the end. Born rich or top seller art grows with each Heller, diamonds are artists’ best friends.. . . Saatchi’s . . .Guggenheim’s . . .Talk to me, Damien, tell me all about it! There may come a time when artists need ideas, so ideas are artists’ best friends? There may come a time whena high-flying art lover thinks you‘re awful nice,but pay that price or else no dice. He‘s your guy when your rank is high but beware when it starts to descend. It’s then that this ripper goes on to some hipper, diamonds are artists’ best friends. I’ve heard of ideas that are just idealistic,so ideals are artists’ best friends? But artwork that you keep economic are better bets if little pets get big baguettes. Art will follow and gets hollow and they count who’s flop and who’s top. But rank high or rank low—you can’t buy my ego, diamonds are artists’ best friends. But rank high or rank low—you can’t buy my ego my workflow, my self managed solo show, my trickiness, restlessness, my artist drive, my life, a diamond cut, not effective but reflective—pure, a cure. Shining, we are all stars,spirits in a material world.
