From The Times, December 2, 2008
Turner winner Mark Leckey attacks 'shock art'
“I kind of hate the relationship the press in Britain has towards art,” he said. “I hate the way it’s all Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and Banksy. They expect spectacle and shock. Art is not like that. The art world I know is not like that; it’s a whole other world.”
He was asked whether the impact of the YBAs had done art a disservice. “Ultimately it has,” he said.
Leckey added that he welcomed the end of the boom. “A lot of bad artists have made a lot of money, he said.”
Spectacle and shock has come to be the ‘proto-type’ of most modern art!
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