Monumenta 2016
May 11, 2016 14:26:11 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 11, 2016 14:26:11 GMT
Monumenta 2016 started this week, so I decided to go and see it before it gets crowded, which generally happens around Museum Night which is coming up, and then it stays crowded from then on. They are hoping for more success this year than the event 2 years ago when they lost focus with the artist. The whole concept of Monumenta is to display one huge artwork in the Grand Palais, something so huge that it can't fit anywhere else. This was well done in 2010 and 2012 but in 2014 the artists went too far and basically created an entire museum of little things to see instead of concentrating on something huge. While I found it fascinating, it did indeed miss the point and it took too long to look at everything in crowded small rooms. Monumenta is something that a lot of people can "do" in just half an hour and I would bet that very few people spend more than an hour there, unless they go to the snack bar or decide to consult all of the documentation.
Anyway, this year, the Grande Nef of the Grand Palais has been turned over to the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping.
As you enter, you face a wall of shipping containers. It is probably not at all a coincidence that the principal sponsor of this work is a shipping company.
There are smaller piles of containers here and there.
What we're really here for is to see the snake skeleton.
Perhaps Hollywood is already working on a script about a big snake visiting a world capital.
There is also a big tricorn on display, because why not?
I've always felt that the monumental staircase of the Grand Nef is worthy of its own Monumenta event.
Up on the balcony you get a wider view of things.
I thought that they were very clever to disguise the emergency exits as containers.
Then it was time to leave since I had had my nugget of culture for the day.
Anyway, this year, the Grande Nef of the Grand Palais has been turned over to the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping.
As you enter, you face a wall of shipping containers. It is probably not at all a coincidence that the principal sponsor of this work is a shipping company.
There are smaller piles of containers here and there.
What we're really here for is to see the snake skeleton.
Perhaps Hollywood is already working on a script about a big snake visiting a world capital.
There is also a big tricorn on display, because why not?
I've always felt that the monumental staircase of the Grand Nef is worthy of its own Monumenta event.
Up on the balcony you get a wider view of things.
I thought that they were very clever to disguise the emergency exits as containers.
Then it was time to leave since I had had my nugget of culture for the day.
