Chapter 33 Thirty Kitsch

Andre to MM suffocate Dear MM: After a hard semester, I finally returned home to Germany for a three-week winter vacation.The so-called home is a place where you can be lazy, dizzy, and crazy.Before returning to Hong Kong, my friend and I drove to Munich.Lucas went to school there, he went to class, and I was bored, so I wandered to the Museum of Modern Art by myself.There just happened to be a solo exhibition in the museum, and the artist on display was Dan Flavin. In fact, Lucas told me not to go to the museum at all, saying that the exhibitions were "suffocating".I really had nothing to do, so I went in anyway and walked around for two full hours, only to confirm what he said: I was suffocated to death.

This solo exhibition occupies about 10 rooms, and each room is filled with various neon tubes.When you first entered, you thought the light was just an interesting background, but it turned out not, there is really nothing inside.These neon lights are the exhibits themselves.The red light, the white light, and the green light are so bright that you can't open your eyes, and you can't even walk into the room.I went from showroom to showroom and each room showed these long and short neon lights on the wall!Even the corridors are red and green. I went to the middle room in the bright light and found it was cut off from the other rooms, so I got curious.Walk in, wow, what do you say is inside?The whole room was dimly lit with "black lights"—the kind of lighting any Lan Kwai Fong bar would use, dark and dark.Nothing else.

When I left the museum, I didn't feel at all inspired or "shocked" by art.As the saying goes, art varies according to one's "eyes".Well, my eyes were really irritated by the strong light of this art exhibition, and now I can see the light when I close my eyes, and I really have "sight"! You ask me whether the statue of Bruce Lee in Mosta is art or Kitsch, then I will ask you in reverse: compare the statue of Bruce Lee with the solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Munich, which one is art?Those piles of neon lights are officially exhibited in the most advanced art museums, so it should be "art", right?But all it gave me was dizziness and eye pain.The statue of Bruce Lee, also plated with gold, is it Kitsch?But it is likely to move people, so that people who had stretched out their hands to fight instead shook hands. Isn't this the power of art?

Tired to death That Sound of Music show you were talking about, man, of course I remember it.I have no interest in musical scripts, and I have never even heard of "Fairy Music" or "Truth, Goodness and Beauty" when I was in Germany.The three of us decided to leave in midfield because we couldn't stand it anymore.First came Austrian "traditional costumes", then Austrian "folk songs", and then the so-called "folk songs" of "Little White Flower". Later, even the Nazis were involved in the show.I also remember you asking us "why", and I also remember our answer: there is only a limit to how much Kitsch one person can swallow!This Broadway play takes the stereotypes of Germany and Austria to the extreme, adding "sugar" to the extreme, and we are almost "tired" to death.

Our reaction is not difficult to understand.Just think about it, put the actors who play Chinese on the stage, let them wear bamboo hats, draw two goatees, and roll up their trousers, stand in the rice fields, and then let them stand there and sing "Americans" It looks like Ching-Chang-Chong, a Chinese song, can you watch this performance for two hours?You guarantee that the midfielder will not leave the seat? Kitsch Top Ten The line between art and Kitsch is indeed blurry, and I'm actually not qualified to judge, forget it, I won't mess with you.fucking compromise.Let me clearly give you a list of "Kitsch Top 10" in my mind!

1. The Sound of Music musical, I will never watch this drama again in my life. Two, porcelain figurines—especially winged angels. 3. (Since I came to Asia) Mao products - including military caps with red stars, school bags with the words "serve the people", especially all kinds of clocks with Chairman Mao's arm as a pointer. 4. Anything that shows "patriotism" - especially American, with eagles, stars and stripes, soldiers in uniform, etc. 5. Anything that shows "religion" (do you remember those "witness" women who often came to ring the doorbell to preach to us? Yes, I mean the literature they put out, always printed with a picture of Jesus being killed by a group of people Surrounded by black and white "multicultural" children.)

6. Unbearable "funny" shirts - Smile if you are horny, Fill beer in here, I'm annoyed, people are always stupid...if I want to see a guy wearing a police shirt when he's not actually a cop , I just want to run away. 7. Inspirational posters and cards - this kind of posters must have beautiful scenery, tranquil seas, mountains, forest trails, must be framed with a black border, and then write a big theme: wisdom, honesty, perseverance, There is perseverance, love... 8. There are soap operas on TV, and there are real people outside the TV, but he thinks his life is a soap opera on TV—including "OC←", which you must have never heard of.It's one of the most popular teen soaps in the world, starring Californian teens and teens who have so much money they don't know they're sloppy.

Nine, American country songs - too sweet. 10. Your love for me and Philip - motherly love is definitely Kitsch... oh (sigh) your andre