On my first visit to the 2018 International Sculpture Biennial exhibition A Grin Without a Cat at the Borås Art Museum, I somehow managed to miss this huge … thing … on display outside:
Be honest: When seeing this, would your first thought be: “What a great piece of art!” ??
Now tell me what you think:
Is this Art? Rubbish? History worth preserving? Comparable to a piece of the Berlin Wall?
(What they intend to do with it after the art exhibition is over, I don’t know.)
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Weekend Postcard
Postcard from John in England, June 2018
“There was the Cat again, sitting on the branch of a tree.”
The gilded roundel of the Cheshire Cat featured on the back cover of the original edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, first published by Macmillan & Co Ltd in 1865.
8 comments:
my first thought before I read the post, was it looks like they were demolishing a building and left some it stacked and ready for pickup. which made sense that it is part of somethey they tore down. It is a piece to make us think, and that is what art is supposed to do, so I am thinking, yes it is art
Interesting and in the right setting it would be better. Bit of history, but not sure what artistic merit it has.
It does look like art to me---and placed somewhere as a sculptural piece in the right setting I think it would look ok...xo Diana
History? Yes. Art? I think I'm in the 'No' camp. Preserve it? Definitely.
I like your answer, Sandra - "a piece to make us think". (Obviously it made me think as well, or I wouldn't have posted about it at all!)
Janet, I suppose "the right setting" was the facade of the building for which it was originally made... ;)
Diana, I'm having some difficulties thinking of a (long-term) "right setting" for it in the state it is now... But maybe the people responsible for such things in our city will figure it out. :)
Interesting point of view, Graham. Now if only we had a huge Museum of Concrete Architecture...
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