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Originally Posted by phoenix
I think whether you allow yourself to enjoy contemporary scultpure more than classical or not, has not much to do with which is 'better?"
what is wrong with whitereads work? I don't personally enjoy her more recent ones, but the internal space sculptures are quite wondreful to experience..
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I really like Whiteread's work, have done for a while now. The point I was making is that I think half of the struggle with a gallery is how to set the art. The experience I had in Rome was the (representational) sculpture was treated with quite a degree of respect, well-considered, and would generally be in-and-amoungst other sculpture of a similar period. Britain, or London at least, seems to just plonk a sculpture anywhere, ideally next to a painting under perspex with bright lights shining on it so you can't qutie see the painting properly.
Which is to say, I get very kneejerk-y when people decry 'contemporary' or 'modern' art, so I can understand why you've written the above.