Title: SUPER(M)ART
Year: 2002
Illustrator: Navin Production
Volume: 1
Page: 8
Publisher: Agnes b. and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Related Exhibition/Project: SUPER(M)ART

Published under point d’ ironie as a free tabloid art paper, 81 year old Navin is a poor alcoholic artist living in the mountains of Chiang Mai in the year 2052. He wins the lottery and decides to travel to Paris to see the place that first made him famous. When he arrives he finds the art world has collapsed and the prestigious Palais de Tokyo, where he once held a solo exhibition is now available for rent. He meets the young Curatorman, a slick and youthful entrepreneur dedicated to the commercialisation of art who tells him about his business of turning Art into (M)art. Navin is surprised that Curatorman is the son of a respected 20^th century curator. They end up fighting but neither of them wins, with the culmination of an open-ended question to readers, a request that they participate in the future of art and donate their ideas.