The clown shows the wound

Portrait of Joseph Beuys in 1976. JOSEPH BEUYS;

VEGAP;

Barcelona 2020

Museums, like literature, have their ages.

The Theocratic Age preceded the Aristocratic and the Democratic;

then came the Seriocomica, with the jester as the unusual protagonist of the invention of the white cube.

It lasted a few decades because Chaotica immediately broke in — that of museums such as castles and inflatable slides — and its replica that now emerges like a rolled iceberg: the Catastrophic Age.

Thus, the historical sequence begins - although it does not always follow a strict chronological order - with the Vatican repositories and ends with Leonardo, Van Gogh, Cézanne or Picasso as the most g ...

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