Swiss artist goes on sale at Prada in Venice

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Swiss artist goes on sale at Prada in Venice

After several years of preparation, a huge exhibition by Swiss artist Christoph Büchel opened at the Fondazione Prada in Venice on Saturday. With bitter irony, the art promoter has apparently transformed the magnificent palace of the foundation into a shop for Ramsch and high-priced stuff, in which everything is to be sold off. At the same time, he points to the financial and art history of Venice in a multi-layered manner and presents the art s…