Klerkx & Jerkx

Ok, so galleries are interesting in Milan, the first real gallery experience we had was at the Main gallery, right next to the Duomo. 

We paid €7 to go and see a Canaletto  exhibition... If you ever get the opportunity to go to a canaletto exhibition, run as far from it as possible. For a starter, it only had 2 Canelettos and they could quite possibly have been the most boring paintings ever. Then it was followed by horrible furniture and ceramic vases painted/crafted in the most complex way possible.

To add insult to injury, we might as well have been escorted around the gallery by security. If you are under the age of 40 and are interested in Classical art, you must be a vandal, right?

Pah!

Needless to say, i lost faith in art for a little while.

But on a positive note, we managed to find several art galleries similar to those on Viner st, small independent galleries showcasing new artists.

Klerkx was one of the best of these.

Which played host to works by Matt Calderwood Weighted, balanced sculptures.

Yesterday we managed to get to... get this, MILANO GALLERIA D'ARTE MODERNA!

yeah?

no.

it was crap, the most modern piece of work was from 1929...

And before you say it, i know "modernity" spans from the 19th Century to mid 20th but, it was awful.

Apart from a few nice Cartoon's (looked like MichaelAngelo's, probably weren't) it was all filled with Landscapes from lesser known painters, and with the exception of a few nice pre-impressionist paintings the place was a dive.

Will update with more of our adventures shortly.