Questionable Installation

The attached description claimed it was the artist's expression in tangible form of her reaction to Donald Trump's election as President, done with found materials from her studio.

In other words, she pitched a tantrum and destroyed her living room because her candidate lost.

I first went to Vienna in 1995, and completely missed the Secession museum. Kicked myself for it for years. That meant it was on the top of my list for this visit.

Imagine my disappointment when I find inside not a museum dedicated to the Secession, or to Art Nouveau more broadly, but the usual "modernist" tripe by no-talent grifters whose work is closer to the crude figures and fingerpainting of a kindergarten art show than to anything the real Secessionists put out.

This is not art. This is garbage posed randomly and affixed with a pretentious and nonsensical "statement" explaining its faux-profundity.

(More here: www.secession.at/en/exhibition/nicole-eisenman/)