Yesterday, we spotted an advert for the Moco Museum (of modern and contemporary art) and noted that it was in the Gothic quarter and amongst other things we might like to explore, so a plan is set in motion. Today we live out that plan.
It starts off strong with a very large Keith Haring, an artist Alasdair is particularly fond of and I thus also quite enjoy. But that’s about it of his work, with a brief if uninspired caption on the wall.
This is the general theme. It’s a gallery that seems to exist for Instagram, a superficial tour through the work of people like Murakami and Banksy and Basquiat, with no real thought put into the context - why is this work interesting? What does it say? How is this all linked? Alasdair more charitably describes it as a good jumping off point for students, perhaps - here’s what’s out there, go dig into what you find interesting. Maybe.
What neither of us choose to be charitable about is the dedicated gallery rooms to NFTs. I shan’t expound further on the pisstake this is, but I would love to know what the museum would do if their cryptowallet was hacked.
The decided highlight, though (and there is one), is one of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms, something that probably does only really exist on a pure aesthetic level but it’s staggering to exist in it and does do something to you, surrounded by eternal neon lit up diamonds suspended in mid air forever.