Gina Proenza at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

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European Kunsthalles have budgets with press releases bearing the weight of the world. In NYC gallery will have no press release and be a show of dirty dishes. A Kunsthalle serves a slightly different purpose, but the trope extends throughout. 

Stephen Prina at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

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The medium is the message another way of saying that saying nothing a whole lot of ways is the same as saying a whole lot of something. This has a lot to do with art, in which the goal is to make a elusive content engorge with meaning, make the non-content of biographic Galesburg seem big. And it does. We attribute meaning to this suburban genericism. Structuring experience as a series of means of deployments, Prina is, like the suburbs, a much more insidious real estate developer than first seems.

“Darknet” at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen

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Premising itself of the ominousness mystery of the deep web the artworks will never expose it, needing that mystery for its own import. It will instead further lure it into metaphor and fable, revealing nothing about the darknet and everything about art’s ability to vampire interest. The worst way to make art is to find something interesting in the world and deciding it needs to be art.

See too: Simon Starling at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.