"If Duchamp had been a bit more generous with

his not insubstantial sense of humor, his readymades

might have looked a bit more like those of

Marcel Prins. If Brancusi had had a sense of

humor at all, then his totemic combinations of

raw materials and potent shapes might have as

well. The Dutch artist Prins assembles whale

bones, wood bits, walking sticks, wire baskets

and empty wine cases into sculptures that look

and act like naughty descendants of the modern

masters. In that, they come by their witty sense of

play and excellent sense of form honestly. Prins

appreciates a perfect wooden ostrich egg as

seriously as anyone, but he has the contemporary

gumption to balance it not atop a marble plinth

but instead on a shaky stack of oddly shaped

timber. As for his sculpture of a cow who has run

out of milk, it might just be one of the more

inventive uses of a cut-up broom stick, wood

floor slats, a chair back, a metal coffee table base

and a little stool. Picasso’s bicycle seat bull would

have given it a second look."

~ Lori Waxman

Look what Chris made: