If you don’t like contemporary art because you don’t understand, this book will help you out. Love does not guarantee, but the gap in knowledge will surely fill.
“I can do that too,” says almost everyone who first gets acquainted with the objects of modern art, whether it be Kabakov’s “stools”, Duchamp’s urinal, or even Malevich’s Black Square. “Now I will explain to you why it should still be called art,” the author replies. Italian Francesco Bonami, one of the most famous art critics. About the leading artists of the twentieth century, from Marcel Duchamp to Damien Hirst, Bonami writes catchy and provocative, in this he is “equal” to his characters. He rarely falls into an apology, sometimes openly mocking. “Warning: inedible,” he warns of Renato Guttuso or Fernando Botero. In general, he often resorts to culinary metaphors, explaining art as … pasta – overcooked or al dente. True art is certainly al dente, and the curator is a chef, Bonami assures, although on the cover we see by no means a chef, but a pirate with a black square of Malevich on his eye. The book is informative: if you have not previously felt sympathy for contemporary art, Bonami is unlikely to convince you, but from now on you will know much more about his creators and concepts.
V-A-C press, 208 с.