Trial by Jury in the Court of Public Opinion: Phoenix Reacts to Flag Art Exhibition Phoenix Art Museum, March 16 – June 16, 1996

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
Carita M. Culmer ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Machotka

In his seminal work on landscape David Cosgrove observed that ‘nature’ as a socio-cultural construct has always functioned as one of the favorite focuses of cultures when humanity is in crisis. Taking this thesis as a theoretical point of departure, this study explores a contemporary art exhibition Sensing Nature: Yoshioka Tokujin, Shinoda Tarō, Kuribayashi Takashi. Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature, staged in 2010 at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. The study investigates the strategies used in contemporary exhibiting practices to establish alternative sources of collective identification, and the role of the notion of ‘nature’ in these processes. It explores the recent shift from the perception of the world as the globe into the national terroir as discussed by Bruno Latour and exposed in the conceptual design of Sensing Nature, which returns to the nation-specific notion of “the Japanese perception of nature”. This maneuver demonstrates both the role of art in building social and ecological resilience; and the ambivalent potential of culture in the politics of nature.


Author(s):  
Ana Tirado

Resumen: Este trabajo aborda la exposición de arte en clave de transferencia del conocimiento artístico. La hipótesis se refiere a si es posible un carácter científico para la exposición de arte y, en tal caso, cómo se articularía. Para ello, se adopta un método de estudio comparado de casos, de acuerdo a una muestra de dos casos internacionales de exposición de arte. Se realiza un análisis cualitativo de los contenidos de ambas exposiciones, según las variables de los dispositivos de información interna en sala y los contenidos de estos. Los casos de la muestra son: la exposición Itinerarios del vértigo de Sandra Silva, en el Museo de Arte de Pereira, en Pereira (Colombia), en 2015, y la exposición La invención concreta.Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros en el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte “Reina Sofía”, en Madrid (España), en 2013. En los resultados se encuentran tres tipos de contenidos con carácter científico (crítica artística, metodología de investigación y fuentes primarias), respecto de un total de seis dispositivos de información interna en sala. Las conclusiones arrojan aportaciones para dos tipos de transferencia de conocimiento artístico en la exposición de arte, según la transferencia del proyecto artístico y la transferencia del contexto histórico-artístico.  Palabras clave: artes, museología, exposición, transferencia del conocimiento, investigación artística.  Abstract: This work addresses the exhibition of art in the key of transfer of artistic knowledge. The hypothesis refers to whether a scientific character is possible for the art exhibition, where the main purpose is to know how this transfer would be articulated in an art exhibition. For this, a method of comparative study of cases is adopted, with a sample of two international cases of art exhibition, in which a qualitative analysis of contents of the exhibition is carried out, according to the variable of the internal information devices in the room and the contents of these. The cases of the sample are: the exhibition Itinerarios del vertigo by Sandra Silva, at the Art Museum of Pereira, in Pereira (Colombia), in 2015, and the exhibition of Concrete Invention.Collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, at the National Museum Center of Art "Reina Sofía", in Madrid (Spain), in 2013. In the results, three different types of content are found (artistic criticism, research methodology and primary sources), according to a total of six internal information devices in room. The conclusions provide contributions for two types of transfer of artistic knowledge in art exhibition, according to the transfer of the artistic project and the transfer of the historical-artistic context.  Keywords: art, museology, exhibition, transfer of knowledge, art research.   DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.10.13979


1970 ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Line Brædder

This paper argues that intense atmospheres hold potentials in the art exhibition space, even though implementation at art museums seems challenging in different ways. Therefore, the paper aims at contributing to an operative analytical terminology and exhibit cases useful for art exhibition practices that want to focus on atmospheric experiences. To showcase how atmospheres are formed and affect us, this paper uses theory mainly founded in phenomenology and explores the relationship between atmosphere, exhibition spaces of the past, and phenomena as aura, affect, and presence effects. These are considered elements in a “toolbox”, arguing that multisensory elements, engaging the visitor as co-creator, and focusing on the exhibition as a unit instead of a space for individual objects can be effective when working with atmospheric exhibitions. The results of the examinations of this paper also points to the potentials of welcoming dissolutions, uncanny disturbances, metonymies, anecdotes, non-logical gut-feeling and a baroque visual mode of expression in order to highlight the elements that are effective in the art museum.


1966 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 316-316
Author(s):  
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