This Belongs in a Museum

Miquel Àngel Joan (dude needs to eat a sandwich) of Majorca, Spain has a website called “The Strange Museum: Travelling Exhibition of Broken Toys” (pause the sound on your computer if you don’t want to hear annoying, repetitive music). I have no idea how real this thing is, but I found out the artist goes by the name Llonovoy (yo no voy ~ ‘do it without me’), which explains why it is so prominently featured on his site. It’s his name. And what artist doesn’t want you to know his or her name? Actually the official name of the museum is L’Estrany Museu Llonovoy or Llonovoy’s Curioseum. According to one of Miguel’s friends, the museum is a “collection of impossible toys, manufactured from objects trouvés provided with a new life and charged with a critical sense that ranges from the naïf to the antimilitarist.” Huh? Wha? My brain just oozed out of my ears and is now dripping onto my computer keyboard. My eyes are in a permanent roll due to the awful pretentiousness of this whole goddamn thing. Miguel Llonovoy Whatshisname reminds me of my museology days when there was this one dude (actually he’s now a Doctor of Museums) who’d get a hard-on whenever big words were used when discussing the context and meaning of art. Wonder why museum visitors don’t read object labels? It’s because curators do whatever they can to make sure a certain number of big words are used in the writing of those labels, even if they don’t actually give any context to the art piece they’re supposedly describing. It’s more important to prove how smart they are, and not about an enjoyable experience for the visitor. Oh, did this just turn into a rant? Oops. Well, anyway it looks like Llonovoy turns old toys into art. I’m guessing he thinks they’re broken because they lack context and meaning, but his magical artistic skills have now given them…you guessed it…new context and meaning. Yay!

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