Material for thought
Posted in art on Apr 25th, 2010
Few quotes from the book “Issues in curating contemporary art and performance” by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwick: As cultural agents, curators and artists participate in the production of cultural value. Exhibitions are, therefore, contemporary forms of rhetoric, complex expressions of persuasion, whose strategies aim to produce a prescribed set of values and social relations for their [...]
Posted in art on Apr 5th, 2009
The biennial is running until end of April 2009. The theme of this year is “Integration and Resistance in the Global Age”. Havana is a highly cultural city, I had the chance to be there when the biennial started and I can report on some of the exhibitions I saw. What stroke me is the [...]
Posted in art on Jan 13th, 2009
The Serpentine gallery is currently hosting an exhibition about Indian contemporary art, Indian Highway. Here is the theme: “Some of the artworks in the exhibition have been selected for their connection to the theme of Indian Highway, reflecting the importance of the road in migration and movement and as the link between rural and urban [...]
Posted in art on Dec 20th, 2008
I attended a one week long course entitled ‘Introduction to curating contemporary art‘, held at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. It was a dense introduction to the history of curating, to what are the dilemmas of curators and to how practically organize an exhibition. Half of the time was spent on theoretical texts, [...]
Posted in art on Dec 15th, 2008
The Jeff Koons exhibition in the Chateau de Versailles illustrates how important the process of curation is in the reception of art. Curation is a relatively recent discipline, at least in our shared consciousness. It can be defined as the process of selecting and organizing artwork in order to further knowledge. A curator is thus [...]
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