Fondazione Prada — Attraction in Venice

Outstanding solo art project by Christoph Buechel "Monte di Pietà" spread over several floors and the inner courtyard of Fondazione Prada as part of Venice's 60th Biennale. The logistics must have been challenging, bringing together priceless paintings from Florence's Uffizi, as the portrait of Catarina Corner (who was born here) mixed together with endless rules full of junk, guns, lab-grown diamonds, a ton of weight of ancient ledgers on loan from Naples' Monte di Pietà, crypto miner, broken freezers, etc. The details are amazing, as the exhibitions extra designed Prada logo shaped "Queen of pawn" label, referring to a fictitious bankrupt pawnshop as shown here. All exhibits are interlinked, intralinked and well thought through - dedicated to debt and its consequences on society and individuals. Don't miss it and...

The worst experience I ever had in a museum/exibition space. I give special description of the arrogant lady in the second floor. Short, slim, black long hair, glasses with thick frame, flower piercing on her nose. It was about 15 mins before closing time. I wanted to see the rest of the exibition, sie firmly told me, that I have to go and leave now, they are closing. I said I want to stay few more minutes and sie started becoming aggressive, rude and respectless. Are those the values that PRADA stands for? Especially, when someone came from Vienna, as to see this particular exibition of OMA. Please reconsider how you chose your employees....

Inside, most people laugh about it, find it ridiculous if not horrible. But what most people don't understand is that contemporary art, like in this case (Christoph Bückl, @fondazioneprada), is about the concept. And if you don't have the mental capacity and the intellectual background to get it, you won't get it. So, next time you make fun of an installation, ask yourself: Is it useless and stupid, or am I maybe the problem? Are you maybe too ignorant to understand it? Art should always try to be accessible to everyone, but some people just don't want to be part of the conversation; they prefer...