Scathing review of new Moca show ‘couples’
Read it here, ow, it hurts… Must admit I haven’t been to this show yet myself.
opening paragraph:
At first, visitors to Shanghai’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) may find themselves slackjawed in amazement, without words, staggered, even laughing - almost - as they meander through the gallery’s two floors. Almost laughing, mind you, for its current exhibit, COUPLES, seems to sink below the realm of quality so far that it nearly (but not quite) swings back up into a new category of hilarious kitsch trash. As it is, skidding to halt at the bottom of the arc, the collection of artwork is just plain bad. The handful of Chinese art-viewers sharing the space with us preferred to admire the paintings, sculptures, and experimental pieces through the one-square-inch pixelated screens of their cellphones as they snapped quick shots and sent them off to friends. These works, it seems, are not worth seeing in person.