Tags: Cracking Art, L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp, plastic mocassins, Ready Made, Shoes-Ready, Shudy
To create a fashion icon with a different material. To use a synthetic material and obtain a product that breaks and clashes with the original. At the root of Shudy’s idea is the instantaneous creative act of the readymade as a source of inspiration, together with its closeness to Cracking Art for the choice of plastic. “Readymade” as “no sooner said than done”. An object of everyday use becomes art in an instantaneous way, due to the intentionality of the artist’s gesture. Like Marcel Duchamp’s urinal, a work of art because exhibited as such to the public, or like L.H.O.O.Q.’s Monna Lisa wearing a moustache and a pointed beard. Already existing products that lose their status of objects and are turned into works of art. Plastic is the material that Cracking Art Group have chosen for their creations. The artistic collective, founded by Omar Ronda in 1993, are known all over the world for their provocative installations: reproductions of animals made of recycled plastic, and exhibited in historical places or crowded places like streets or shopping centres. ‘Cracking’ is the technical process through which mineral oil, the planet’s most ancient natural material containing the organic matter of past ages, is turned into plastic. It is also the snapping sound of something that caves in or breaks, the break created by choosing this humble and cheap material: the break between the natural-organic and the artificial-synthetic. Therefore Ready-Shoes, Shoe-Ready, Shu-dy. Shudy, to directly point to the simplicity of the product, Shoe and the word Ready.