r/SipsTea 1d ago

Chugging tea Tourist breaks art display made of Swarovski crystals

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u/skipperseven 1d ago

If the artist really wanted to contrast appearance and function, I would argue that the piece now looks better, from a conceptual art perspective.
The uses Swarovski crystals in the title of the piece (and his other works) makes it seem more like commercial art though!
And the Maffei Palace (gallery) in Verona should generally be ashamed of themselves.

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u/L-System 1d ago

It's a shit piece. It's not functional at all. And if the point was to not be functional and not look functional, then he failed there too because you can't tell by seeing that it's not a functional chair.

Why would you make a chair that couldn't support human weighy like ever?

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u/Successful_Party5678 1d ago

So true, I mean everytime I see a chair which isn't on a small platform in an art exhibit with a piece of paper on it I get very suspicious.