I am not sure how some of these artists become respected in the first place, but I bet his first works weren't anything this awful and pretentious. I guess once people recognize your name you can do whatever the hell you want. Sometimes these exhibits make you think that the creator just wanted to see how far they could push ridiculousness and still have people heap praise on them. Looks from your post that you stayed in that room even longer than I would have dared to ;) I did see the sculptures in your other post though, and those were magnificent! I doubt this guys' "art" will also be remembered in a few centuries haha