There is something about Vo’s destruction of art works which I find unsettling

In the January 29, 2018 issue of The New Yorker, Calvin Tomkins profiles Danh Vo (“The Whole Thing is Crazy”) , an artist whose large survey show will open at the Guggenheim Museum on February 9th . Describing one series of works which Vo began making in 2009, Tomkins says, “The collages consist of Roman marble busts, medieval wooden saints and Madonnas and other relics that he finds in antique shops or buys at auction; he cuts each one up into tow of more parts, and joins part of one to part of another.” While not every genuine art work is historically or aesthetically important or belongs in a museum collection, there is something about Vo’s destruction of art works which I find unsettling.