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17/3/2003

The exhibition as a work of art

Escola De Artes Visuais Do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro

Curated by: Jens Hoffmann

Participants:
Artur Barrio
Ricardo Basbaum
Ana Paula Cohen
Iran do Espirito Santo
Paulo Herkenhoff
Lisette Lagnado
Laura Lima
Ivo Mesquita
Adriano Pedrosa
Luiz Camillo Osorio
Carla Zaccagnini

The Exhibition As A Work Of Art will be an exhibition that emerges from questions on exhibition making to reach a point where an exhibition could potentially exist without any art works but become a work of art on its own. The aim is an investigation on the creative and artistic engagement of curators within the making of art exhibitions.

Already during the 1960s and 70s exhibition makers such as Harald Szeemann or Pontus Hulten claimed the creative and artistic capacities of curators and established curatorial models in which exhibitions would not only form a devise for the presentation of art but become a creative principal in their own right. Particularly during the 1980s many curators were refereed to as exhibition directors or exhibitions authors who would, through the manner in which they presented, grouped and arranged works of art, create new meaning in the form of the overall compositions of their shows. Today the fixation of the curator on personal interests is widely criticized and more theoretical and collaborative concerns have emerged that try to give as much space to the artists as possible. However, another form of curating has appeared as well, one that questions and investigates the very concept of curating and the system behind the making of exhibitions. Not unlike strategies known from Conceptual Art, the goal is a deeper understanding and engagement with this particular form of presenting art in order to formulate and foster a wider diversification of curatorial models.

Considering the educational environment of the Escola De Artes Visuais the project will investigate and present shifts in curatorial practice by means of short written statements in order to look at a recent history of exhibition making in Brazil. The participants are all widely acknowledged protagonists of the Brazilian art scene, which has over the course of the last thirty years emerged as one of the globex{2019}s most dynamic places in regards to the contemporary art discourse. The participants will include a diverse group of artists, curators, and writers that all have relations to the thought of the art of exhibiting and the exhibition as art on which this project is based. The statements will be presented in the gallery space along with an opening wall text. The intention is to actually ask all participants to critically reflect upon the idea of an exhibition that would take a complete conceptualization of the exhibition model into consideration and how this could in fact take shape from the various points of view.

A publication will accompany the exhibition published by Edition Valerio. It can be ordered by sending an email.

Escola De Artes Visuais Do Parque Lage
Rua Jardim Botânico 414
Rio de Janeiro 22461-000
Brasil
t: + 55 21 2538-1879
f: + 55 21 2537-7878

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