The Price of Everything (2018)

Stefan Edlis: Self - Art Collector

Quotes 

• Self - Art Collector : I bought this, it was in Venice. It was 5 million when I bought it. It's not worth that now, Damien's prices have gone down. But I really wanted one of the pieces that he represented with his breakthrough idea of having an animal in formaldehyde. It's a big question mark, is it art, but it's certainly fascinating and I had seen a couple of his works before. It was all sealed in, ready to go, and there was snot coming out of the nose of the sheep. It was just dripping, white stuff dripping out. OK, we'll have to unseal it and we emptied halfway out and we got it delivered here and for six months I was grooming that sheep. It's now four years and nothing has come out. So it's stable.

  Interviewer : It's done?

  Self - Art Collector : It's done. There's nothing really, what you say, conceptual about it. I don't consider this conceptual art. It is a real object that you can relate to as a real person.