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WHERE ARE THE GREAT SAGES OF ART?
REFLECTIONS ON THE ART OF TODAY

Fiction: Critical Essays by Jordi Rodríguez-Amat

In the queue of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris to
buy the ticket on the first Sunday of October 2019, 11 am.
Exhibition: Arman.
- Who is this one?
I hear someone saying, right behind me, referring to a poster
in front of us: Arman.
Only the considered great artists are invited to exhibit
in this center, those that are accepted as the superstars
of contemporary art, the headlights that illuminate the
so-called contemporary aesthetic or, better yet, the
contemporary artistic conceptuality.
Once inside the exhibition, after having, obviously, paid for
my ticket, I see that there are all kind of visitors. There is
one a little stunned watching the exhibited works as if he
was discovering something from another galaxy. There is
also another one that seems to know everything. There’s
also the neophyte who says he doesn’t understand
anything. I am also there. Another one, without being a
sage of art, seems to have his own idea of art and states
that this is not art. Suddenly, I hear a very beautiful young
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1959
Photo: William H. Short © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York girl saying: is this art? This is a question of the unbeliever,
would say a sage of art. - But don’t you see that it’s being
presented as an art exhibition in this important center for
contemporary art? Answered a young man who seems to
be very much in love with her.
I go from one room to another, looking right and left. Title of
the work? Of course, although we see it, the artist titled his
works, for the case that someone couldn’t see it. Colère de
Mandoline (a crushed and destroyed mandolin), Poubelle
des Halles (all kinds of debris inside a glass box), Tuez-les
tous, Dieu reconnaîtra les siens (thirty ancient fly-sprayers).
Accumulation of machines à écrire dans une boîte en bois. I
think again that I don’t know why he puts a title if we can see
it. Butterfly Variations (a violin carved and butterfly-shaped
on a wooden board). I liked this one: Le Fauteuil d’Ulysse (a
half-burnt armchair). A little tired of reading so many titles
.... Goodness me! what beautiful legs! In spite of not being
a young girl, she wants to show her impressive body today.
She looks like she is be between forty and forty-five years
old. Perfect! She knows how to move, stylish, shoes with high

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