ChefFerrari wrote:What about the fans that have been asking for this because they cant or wont drop $2k on the Verdena ?
How are they drymounting their fans ? Their fans buy their stuff because , oh wait it for it let me repeat myself, they enjoy the art work and dont care about "value".
My 2 cents..
I think that fans are drymounted, because they are playing a game. And each game has rules. This game is a hobby, a collecting hobby. More than that it's a LIMITED EDITION collecting hobby and I believe reprinting, re-hashing huge prints like Verdena drymounts the fans because it suddenly changes the rules, you know. Whoever is into that hobby, I guess, assume legitimatly that gigposters printed in 04, numbered out of 120 are the only 120 pieces that will be printed with that same design on. Why? because there are rules, right? Erick Montes won't reprint something he did 4 years ago, no? I mean, what's that?? Am I the only one assuming that for no reason at all?
Therefore, playing this hobby game with these rules in mind, I believe these practices are drymounting with us players...fans. «Mr. Malleus hardcore art lover and collector» loves this art so much he's willing to trade 2 prints worth $500-$1000 to get that Verdena image on his wall. That is some food on the table for the kids you know. Well, if he suddenly learns that he should have waited 2 months and he could have get very similar art for $100, I think we can all assume here our «Mr. Malleus hardcore art lover and collector» got drymounted..
I agree, that might be an isolated case and more people will benefit the new art print, cause more people want it and couldn't in the past then people who got drymounted like in the situation exposed.. but I'm not sure if more people happy = a good enough reason to change the rules. Non-written rules I entend, I know technically it's their art and they have made some change etc.
And I don't think the debate should be made towards their intention.. I don't think I care. They are good people they made it to please the fans who requested it, bla bla... fine, fine.. they knew they'd do good money reprinting this.. well, I know money is good, you can do a lot of good things with that, maybe creating more art.. meaning I don't care about the intention.. the debate is not there.. they did it, allright. Is it ok to do that?
If it is ok to do that, let's make it clear it's ok too do that, I just want to know. Tell us in the next x years, you'll probably see art prints of all of these (name the prints). It's allright with me as long as I know what's going on. I'll keep my money for something else than the rare Malleus I was eyeing cause the art print will be almost identical and much cheaper.. If these practices are ok, I think to be fair to the fans, it should be clear all those limited edition gigposters could very well be reprinted into art print editions.. a statement that I don't think was very well understood throughout the Malleus art lovers/collectors.