What if the same ratchet-scaffolding that jacked the roof of the Neue National Gallerie into place were re-installed and thrown into reverse, crushing everything inside? The world's largest clear-span crushing machine is a perversely appealing idea, regardless of whether you agree with the author's opinion on the art inside.
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Yeah, I like the art crushing idea too - what other building technologies oculd be used in reverse for a different purpose?
I forwarded the link to my husband, who has a strong opinion about the art insde, here is his response:
I am always surprised to hear a judgement being made about the quality and content of an artist's work based on whether the artist "made" it - re: "The Bernini exhibition is a miracle. Drawings and bronzes and marbles (hand-made! Artists actually used to do that!)" Mr. Koons employs about 80 artist/craftspeople in his studio and I assure you they are all real people who make things. I think it is foolish to think Bernini did not employ craftsmen to populate his studio to commodify his own work and promote his international reputation - it would be impossible to be so prolific without help. Bernini was apparently a businessman like most professional sculptors (Michelangelo employed at least 35 people as did Benvenuto Cellini). It seems to me Bernini did the easy thing and became a portraiture artist to the elite to earn his living - during the Baroque this was a commodity not unlike Mr. Koons work. What may fit your notion of a "true artist's" agenda might be more aptly seen in the work of Vermeer - who painted ordinary domestic life with poetry and beauty without the same patronage. As stunning as the Bernini work is, you describe it as a subversive critique of the patrons he served. Could we not apply that logic to Mr. Koons? I am not a big fan of Koons as a whole, but before you send the work to the crusher, take a second look at the most recent sculpture - flawlessly fabricated and technically astounding (you might have to be a sculptor to appreciate it) - the way a chain link fence can bisect a dolphin balloon echos your marble veining in the Bernini (and who really works in marble anymore?). Because of their intense craftsmanship, the Koons works become commodity in excess - more perfect than any manufacturing process and more phenomenal in
that they are all made things - made by hand.
Yep. Soon the tragedy that happened to the art world is going to happen (or is happening) in the architecture world: A bunch of "architects" who cannot even build a single thing will be blowing blobs and Teletubbies stage sets across the world. Hope the sky will fall and crush those if that's the case.
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