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Mon 07 Jul 2007Artists for artists' sakeAn Irish artist is bypassing the typical gallery hierarchy by organising an online art show in Sicily, writes Paddy Agnew.'I get mad as hell because it seems every second person you meet is an artist. I read obituaries in the paper: 'So and so died. He was a retired life-insurance salesman, a good husband and a father, avid golfer, gardener and artist.' I've spent my whole life learning how to do this shit and some prick takes up painting when he retires and he's my peer?