Il Ministero polacco della Cultura ha finanziato questa scultura chiamata “Fence” di Monika Sosnowska con 377.000 PLN. Esposto al Museo Jan Kochanowski di Czarnolas. Cosa pensi dei finanziamenti pubblici all’arte contemporanea?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
i coulda bent that fence myself for two beers and a cig
It looks like my bird feeder after the crow was done with it 😁. And he created that art for just a handfull of peanuts
Man I coulda done this for an easy 100k
I’ll take 10
I don’t mind government supporting art to some degree, but the amount the artist got begs a question what warrants this amount of money.
This is roughly 8 years off gross minimum wage. I don’t think it took it even eight of this time to make this sculpture, even assuming this is not just twisted fence but it was made by hand from scratch.
I would argue that at some money threshold ministry should explain in detail why they spent such money.
Pretty sure I could make that for free just by tearing up a fence.
I don’t mind.
three zeros and two sevens too many
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Money fraud & laundrying
As reasonable as The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw… 😒
Realistically, how much would making something like that cost? I’ve had some experience with building costs and I know a fence like that can be expensive, but we’re talking a few thousand, not that. I’m not a lawyer but if that’s not we call “niegospodarność” in Polish law then we need to find or make a different paragraph for it.
Great! Instead of helping firefighters, animals, and people that were harmed during forest Solski fire the goverment wastes money on thrash!
E, co to tam trzy stówki.
Money laundering let’s be real
give me 6 beers and I will demolish sometnig that will look beter
I’m all for it. Like really, people need those things in our life and I like seeing nice art, sculptures walking down the cities. What you posted is not nice though. Maybe it have some sens if you deep dive into modern art. It’s not visialy pleasing. It’s fucking horrendous.
It is a good thing to do. Art is a part of healthy society.