Keeping The Balance & Time Machine. Ludwig Museum Budapest. September 8th 2020

https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/exhibitions

It was very good to be able to get back to this favourite space but I was not madly inspired or excited by what I saw. For both of them, particularly Keeping the Balance, there was very little that immediately caught my eye as I walked into each gallery. There was much that was intriguing/unusual/baffling but a major problem I had was that I often had no immediate reaction to/understanding of the art when first seen or experienced. I needed to read the curators’ notes, both for the exhibition as a whole and certainly for the individual works before I gained/understood much - and I feel that this is something of a flaw of contemporary art; and often the explanation was somewhat more interesting and thought-provoking than the work of art inspired by it.

But nevertheless, intriguing and worth seeing - although, perhaps to echo Dr Johnson on Scotland ‘worth seeing, yes, but not worth going to see.’

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