A museum with works born during the COVID-19 quarantine gave birth to the first art museum: the Covid Art Museum. The original idea came from three publicists from Barcelona who opened an Instagram account showing the works created during the quarantine.
Quarantine artworks use many elements such as masks, toilet paper rolls and other elements very typical of confinement. Different ideas can be appreciated in this museum including the smiling Gioconda embracing a handful of scrolls. What to say about Adam’s creation of divine fingers almost rubbing together, but with a hand soap in the middle. A lot of creativity and innovation in these times without being able to go out.
The Covid Art Museum: a confined version of reality
On the virtual walls of the museum are hung all the works born in the middle of the quarantine and in what the world is living now. What the works have in common is that we are all reflected in them, humanity in a single expression.
The creators of the virtual Covid Art Museum a few weeks ago, are surprised to see the great acceptance and all the artistic manifestations that arise. In fact, the three publicists who came up with the idea are on video calls and receive between 20 and 50 pieces of work during the day.
They receive works from all over the world, from Egypt, Australia, the United States through the Instagram account (@CovidArtMuseum); the “hastag” #covidartmuseum and the email covidartmuseum@gmail.com.
In this way they have already collected hundreds of videos, paintings, photos, drawings and various artistic expressions that will remain as a historical record of these moments of pandemic.
Art forms
There are many and diverse expressions: for example, there are some who draw on toilet paper, others on window panes. Others make portraits with drones, hugs wrapped in plastic, still lifes, people with skin the color of the sofa, subway route style maps indicating the stops: kitchen, bathroom, computer and final station, the balcony.
The content of the works is a reflection of the state of mind. Some approach it positively, others with drama, others with humor, love or even pain. But absolutely all of them in any part of the world reflect that we are all living the same circumstance, the same situation, the same enemy. That’s why the project works so well.
Many things are expected from the museum, it may be a historical archive, a record of what humanity is going through at this time. The creators also say, it may at some point become a physical exhibition that everyone can visit. What is important is that it is a means of expression of what we are feeling as human beings in such a crucial moment.
