There are those who think this sort of thing is sick. “Art has become a hospital,” writes Vittorio Sgarbi, the commissioner of the nearby Italian Pavilion, “not visited by healthy people except by chance.” Inside his pavilion there is more nonsensical slag: Sgarbi, a maverick critic and TV personality who hates most contemporary art, has invited leading Italian writers and intellectuals, Dario Fo and Giorgio Agamben among them, to select the works. Boorishly provocative, the resulting show is full of horrible, kitschy things, appallingly installed; with its cliched sentiments and rubbishy populism, it is like a tour of Silvio Berlusconi’s brain.
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