Clever Art

Ecological art has been trending and I'm not a fan. It stays stuck in its "message" (art with a clear message - ugh! - or a statement - ugh!), which makes it 1/1 obvious. Maybe it is politics or activism but not art, or at least not good art. That's why I didn't expect much of the ecological exhibition at The Garage museum in Moscow but I wanted to check out the building. The usual suspects were in the show, all the boring biggies, and it just made me wish that Tomas Saraceno would go on a long, let's say 10-year long vacation in the 2020s. 

There was also a dull piece by Laure Provost - a jacket of hers that she soaked in resin which makes it look as if it's drenched in sweat or water. (just have a look at Grace Jones sweating on the cover of her album Living My Life and you can see the difference between good and bad art) The exhibition text described it as a "clever move" since it apparently inverts the "personal is political" by presenting a political problem as everybody's personal matter. "Clever art" is horrible. The great thing is that a mistake was made in the English text that accompanies it and apparently nobody could be bothered to correct it. Nor could I. For you to find the mistake (apparently an intended one, which makes it even more "clever"):