I am interested in contemporary art; through it, I can feel people from different corners of the world and their vision about life. Every person has something to share, and we all have different ways to express it. I divide the expression of thought through art in two categories. The first one is something you can see with the eyes, and the second that you can understand with your mind. I guess it depends on the character of the author.

The Museum Fondanzione Prada is one of those places in Milan where I come back to relax my soul and dive into the world and thoughts of other people. This favorite place of mine is new for me and for Milan. Miuccia Prada founded it last year, who in addition to her profession as a fashion designer is also a curator of contemporary art. The mission of the museum and of its creators is to convince that culture is useful and necessary, that it can enlighten and enrich us with knowledge about art and the surrounding world every day. For example, their idea of a 24 hours available library and place for reading, Bar Luce, which I wrote about it in my previous post. It proves once again that contemporary art is at the same pace with the progress, as it should be.
Once in a couple of months the exhibitions change. There was an interesting exhibition in there, during my last visit – “To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll“. It explored such fundamental questions as the time, the beginning, the end, the collapse and revival. The ideas were expressed through sculptures, installations, photos, architecture and design.
Some of the pieces impressed me deeply. For exaple, the idea of the installation of rhetorical art and mnemonic technologies, expressed through the monologue compiled from numerous fragments from the speeches of the great thinkers in the performance of the android robot. Science and art – is always the right combination.
Contemporary art sometimes can be very explicit. As, for example this sculpture of nude people. It is a part of the installation called ”Before the Beginning and After the End”. The installation consist in five tables, with big rolls of paper on them, each one of 9.5 meters, that are covered with sketches, texts, mathematical formulas and diagrams, that picturize the history of human progress. Above the rolls there are fixed the art pieces of contemporary and ancient artists. This creates an impossible juxtaposition between such different pieces of art – depicting the evolution of humanity and the possibility of its crash.
Another interesting installation consists of 73 bronze heads, of different historical figures as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Martin Luther King, Karl Marks and others, that are connected by long metall bars. It somehow illustrates the magical connection between remarcable people, that lived in different periods of time, different places, but their ideas reflected all the complexity of the human nature, and its history.
Such pieces of art make me stop and think, what will we leave behind? What kind of history do we create?

Photo: Zina Esepciuc
Museum: Fondazione Prada