Polish Ministry of Culture funded this sculpture called ‘Fence’ by Monika Sosnowska with 377,000 PLN. Displayed at Jan Kochanowski Museum in Czarnolas. What do you think about public funding for contemporary art?
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Sounds like two zeroes too many.
I’d rather have my government pay for healthcare and education than a really bent fence.
It’s important that art (and the arts more broadly) receive public funding. Nonetheless, some publicly funded projects can appear questionable.
Contemporary art is mostly just trash and not worth the materials it took to make.
Did someone tip it over? Looks like it should be upright.
Nothing particular – just do it for your own money…
They made a “statue” out of old building’s rubble in one of polish parks for over 2 million PLN.
They just threw a bunch of rubble on a pile, called it art and took the money.
I was so mad when I found out about it. It’s just opportunists stealing taxpayers money at this point.
It’s ridiculous
….. and my neighbourhood still has crooked, 60-year-old communist pavement.
Money laundering.
It’s awesome and I support it fully! We need to appreciate the value art is adding to our lives. Unless we want to see AI slop only, because that’s where we’re heading with less and less support for young artists and termination of city lease of art workshops to sell to patodeweloperka.
I’m all for it and it’s great if it’s next in the public space. Btw, Polish museums buy works of contemporary Polish artists all the time but also severely lack money. This is much more developed in the UK, France or Germany.
I think some people can sell it as scrap metal and it will be more useful.
377 000pln is 75,4 times more of monthly minimal wage without taxes.
Where do I sign up for funding? I’ve seen shit like this in an empty lot near my house.
XD szkoda strzępić ryja
Listen, I get it. Art is important. The artists need to eat too. But let’s remember that when the government pays for it, it’s essentially forcing the taxpayers to give money.
I wouldn’t have any problems if it was a private comission or cheaper.
It’s basically a modern way of money laundering or corruption.
That’s called corruption.
There have been some art-related posts recently and the overwhelming majority of comments is basically “f..k them lazy leeches, no money for them, etc”.
It is impossible to criticise or get angry at those comments – they are honest and fully justified, of course. They just makes me a little bit sad, because each one of them means there is another person, who goes through live immunised against/ robbed of one of lives greatest pleaures.
Unless we teach “art” in school so that kids get at least a chance to understand it at even the most basic, “mammalian” level, it will stay this way.
I thought that was “Seba in his BMW showing off”
I think I’m an artist who has a lot to say.
a lot of contemporary art is genuinely awesome. people tend to think of mainstream shit like this that got famous because of how bad it is, but there is also a lot of good stuff, not well known by people. that being said this right here is just idiotic. in no way, could anyone persuade me that this trash was worth our money.
“art”
It’s not horrible, but not 377000 PLN great. I mean it’s easy to check how polish art sells at auctions and this price is 10x larger than usual
I got the same in my garden while we are replacing fence
Art is supposed to invoke emotion, and I guess my money being used for this does achieve the purpose of pissing me off.
It’s far less anger than it should be though, because I do not have any positive expectations regarding sensible use of our hard earned money. So I guess even in that, this piece of shit fails. The only thing it succeeded in was, I suspect, laundering 377 000 PLN.
Nation needs to care and build it’s culture, even if someone doesn’t understand art, philosophy or science.
I know 1 or 2 things about art, but I have no idea what that could mean, so probably money laundering
Residency programs are better suited for gov spending on arts and they would actually make the most sense assuming it would warrant freedom of topic and just vague agreement to form of the artwork.
Commissions only make sense for grand projects/events (e.g. in recent years the only events that would make sense are entering eu and eventually COVID memorial).
Potentially full reworks of communal parks and Old towns (tho it would be more optimal to use the works from residencies instead.)
Fraud