Ed Ruscha 🇺🇸 Pop Art • New Print Release • Art For Sale, by met on Apr 30, 2024 0:57:09 GMT 1,

Apr 17, 2024 16:19:13 GMT 1 qest said:

Apr 17, 2024 6:08:40 GMT 1 timmyup said:

Avant Arte seems to be turning the art world into a poster shop.
huge edition, huge prices.. I don’t know why respectful artists choose to work with such. These days everyone and everything seems to be about money. There is no passion anymore.

Interesting comment.

Where are the huge prices?

Should the money be in the hands of the artist/those they work with, or the collectors who sell the works on down the road?

Is passion about creating opportunities for a large number fans to collect a work having the artist's imprimatur, or is passion about inducing scarcity to drive up demand and prices?

You may have been working off a false premise:

That the above member was posting good‑faith, real comments — as opposed to hypocritical and disingenuous ones, mainly intended for the purpose of misdirection.



I recall his four random posts* in rapid succession on 17 April:






My immediate thought then was, "Here we go. He's back, looking to mislead and throw the forum off his stench again. Within a week, we'll get some faux‑naive post about a new Stowe Gallery release."


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Side note


STP and Acme Thunderer already called out the dodginess earlier this year in the Clown print thread*:

Jan 11, 2024 13:48:43 GMT 1 STP said:

Jan 11, 2024 12:52:59 GMT 1 timmyup said:

Don’t normally like Clown stuff but loving the grey one. Would look great with a matching frame.
At £250 why not

Hi Jamie!

Jan 11, 2024 14:02:44 GMT 1 Acme Thunderer said:

Jan 11, 2024 12:52:59 GMT 1 timmyup said:

Don’t normally like Clown stuff but loving the grey one. Would look great with a matching frame.
At £250 why not

I was talking about bad smells earlier in this thread and up pops Timmyup who only posts anything to do with Stowe.

Games up sucker - anything you post actually has a negative effect on sales rather than helping!

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On this occasion, however, there was a miscalculation by me. I messed up a bit.

A later "Hey guys, anyone heard of this [artwork/artist] from Stowe Gallery?"-post did indeed come.

But not within the week, as expected. It took a week and a half to arrive, an extra four days, in the thread for the frankly-godawful MissMe*:






Jamie Marchant of Stowe Gallery might actually be incapable of integrity. With at least half-a-dozen usernames on this message board, perhaps he just has conman DNA.

The fake Banksys he was previously selling also come to mind. Hat‑tip to dogstar* and Prescription Art* for their invaluable screenshot evidence.



Yet in fairness to Marchant, those extra four days mentioned above also mean he's 57% more patient than I previously gave him credit for. And patience is apparently a virtue.

So, apologies and congratulations to shady Jamie!

While his dishonesty is entirely predictable, his timing sometimes isn't.

Apr 17, 2024 16:19:13 GMT 1 qest said:

Apr 17, 2024 6:08:40 GMT 1 timmyup said:

Avant Arte seems to be turning the art world into a poster shop.
huge edition, huge prices.. I don’t know why respectful artists choose to work with such. These days everyone and everything seems to be about money. There is no passion anymore.

Interesting comment.

Where are the huge prices?

Should the money be in the hands of the artist/those they work with, or the collectors who sell the works on down the road?

Is passion about creating opportunities for a large number fans to collect a work having the artist's imprimatur, or is passion about inducing scarcity to drive up demand and prices?

You may have been working off a false premise:

That the above member was posting good‑faith, real comments — as opposed to hypocritical and disingenuous ones, mainly intended for the purpose of misdirection.



I recall his four random posts* in rapid succession on 17 April:






My immediate thought then was, "Here we go. He's back, looking to mislead and throw the forum off his stench again. Within a week, we'll get some faux‑naive post about a new Stowe Gallery release."


____________________


Side note


STP and Acme Thunderer already called out the dodginess earlier this year in the Clown print thread*:

Jan 11, 2024 13:48:43 GMT 1 STP said:

Jan 11, 2024 12:52:59 GMT 1 timmyup said:

Don’t normally like Clown stuff but loving the grey one. Would look great with a matching frame.
At £250 why not

Hi Jamie!

Jan 11, 2024 14:02:44 GMT 1 Acme Thunderer said:

Jan 11, 2024 12:52:59 GMT 1 timmyup said:

Don’t normally like Clown stuff but loving the grey one. Would look great with a matching frame.
At £250 why not

I was talking about bad smells earlier in this thread and up pops Timmyup who only posts anything to do with Stowe.

Games up sucker - anything you post actually has a negative effect on sales rather than helping!

____________________


On this occasion, however, there was a miscalculation by me. I messed up a bit.

A later "Hey guys, anyone heard of this [artwork/artist] from Stowe Gallery?"-post did indeed come.

But not within the week, as expected. It took a week and a half to arrive, an extra four days, in the thread for the frankly-godawful MissMe*:






Jamie Marchant of Stowe Gallery might actually be incapable of integrity. With at least half-a-dozen usernames on this message board, perhaps he just has conman DNA.

The fake Banksys he was previously selling also come to mind. Hat‑tip to dogstar* and Prescription Art* for their invaluable screenshot evidence.



Yet in fairness to Marchant, those extra four days mentioned above also mean he's 57% more patient than I previously gave him credit for. And patience is apparently a virtue.

So, apologies and congratulations to shady Jamie!

While his dishonesty is entirely predictable, his timing sometimes isn't.