May 2012

A PLACE OF QUIET ENCOUNTERS WITH ART

As it turns out, somebody has put a great deal of effort in calculating the amount of time an average museum visitor spends in front of a piece of art – and they came up with the meager and embarrassing number of 12 seconds! According to the statistics, running through the exhibitions is what most of us seemed to be doing. One glimpse at the statue here, another at the painting there, oh look- there’s an interesting installation, how much do we have left? It’s the quantity, the feeling of a fulfilled job, like a ticked off task from a to-do list that, given the research, gives most of the people the sense of a perfectly rounded museum visit.

How many impressions are left after “roller-skating” through exhibition halls (apart from an ego-feeding sense of doing something sinful for one’s soul)? Needless to say – very little.