What can only be summed up as a quantity surveyor’s wet dream goes on to acquire an air of a Dubai developer’s showroom. Undoubtedly, the artworks presented are breathtaking; however with the pedestals being near‐priceless themselves, it is hard to focus on what is being exhibited. Not to be outdone by the centuries‐old filigree bits and pieces, the rooms’ centrepiece is a ludicrously gorgeous staircase ‐ complete with metal handles glued to structural glass walls.
The exhibition hopelessly lacks any sort of spirit ‐ the (almost soulless, yet notionally infallible) presentation completely overpowers the (now seemingly insignificant) exquisite artworks. Unfortunately what the visitor is left with is a parade of marvellous pieces – hopelessly entombed.
The most genuinely interesting objects were the scaffolding and cases still being prepared. They cried out as a dying man amid a barren (yet blindingly sparkly) landscape.
PS: Perhaps I am not seeing the picture properly. It may be in itself a monumental legacy of a time now past, as the invested £31.7 million were raised well before the current financial mishap...
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