Art people are tired

Assino várias newsletters de revistas de arte, mas nenhuma, nenhuma mesmo é tão divertida quanto a da Flash Art, aliás, uma das melhores revistas de arte no mundo todo. O editor da revista, Giancarlo Politi, de Milão envia newsletters a partir do seu email pessoal com deliciosos comentários sarcásticos e ao mesmo tempo precisos e sábios sobre os acontecimentos do mundo da arte. Cito aqui um trecho engraçado sobre porque a arte contemporânea cansa quem gosta de arte:

Art People Are Tired

"So enough, enough please, dear curators and organizers, of pursuing exhibitions in diverse, inaccessible, far-away spaces, reachable only on foot in the burning sun or the pouring rain. Why should visiting an art exhibition necessarily involve suffering and pain? Perhaps it stems from a desire for the exhibition to be like the tired, worn out, depressed and prematurely aged art-worlders? It is an art world from which the joy, the gaiety, the pleasure, and (why not?) the happiness and youthful enjoyment of the participants are disappearing, to be replaced with ugliness (for men, women, and even children), discomfort, tiredness, and boredom.
This serious and suffering audience of 1000 people - this Barnum circus that seems as much like Lourdes as an art exhibition - whom one meets at Manifesta, at Documenta, at the Venice Biennale, makes you sad, and makes you look forward to the moments of separation and pause."