> 'Beware of first- hand ideas!' exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. 'First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element – direct observation.<p>(The Machine Stops, 1909, E.M. Forster)<p><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops</a>
This article explained a lot to me about why people purchase these types of things.<p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/147192/modern-art-serves-rich" rel="nofollow">https://newrepublic.com/article/147192/modern-art-serves-ric...</a>
Tom Wolfe (RIP) wrote "The Painted Word" in 2008 which pretty well summarized all this.<p>Those can make art, make art.
Those who can't, write artist's statements.
And those who can't do that, write impenetrable essays about it.
The only thing I "learned" from this Salvatore Garau in this text is that this sort of art is but one expensive form of institutionalization of commercial bullshit.