Corey Bowman
Artist + Curator = ?
Exhibition
proposal
Exhibition Description:
This exhibition will take the viewer through a collection of
visual sustenance bringing into question the current state of the museum,
specifically the artists and curators housed within them.
Artists question the things around them as they
create. Curators attempt to answer and interpret these
questions. This exhibition asks questions in an attempt to answer
others.
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What is the difference between the titles of artist, and
curator?
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Is art a commodity or a __________?
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What is the future of the museum?
Exhibition Statement:
The early ancestor of the museum, the ‘Wunderkammer’, or
‘cabinet of curiosities’ possessed a special quality in relation to the
creative imagination, a quest to explore the rational and irrational freedom of
arrangement Since the introduction of this concept of compiling objects,
collections have been arranged and shown for the enjoyment of the owner as well
as others. “One is a collector, who uses assemblage through the arrangement
and juxtaposition of diverse collected objects.”1
Cabinets of curiosities still exist today in people’s homes, on
their shelves, in their minds, or where ever people may place their
curiosities, but an entity exists, in a different order of magnitude, for the
collection of objects: the museum. Museums exist for the collection,
preservation, and research or objects.2 Within
this existence museums interpret, define, and create a context for what is seen
within their walls. Viewers walk around, inside, and through didactic
space, experiencing what have easily become surrogate scale models of the world
at large. Each work gives the viewer a guided tour inside the
curator/artists creation rather than just allowing them to stand passively
before a static image.
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What is the difference between a curator and an artist who
assembles a collection of objects?
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Has art become a commodity?
·
What is the future of the museum?
Exhibition design:
As the viewer enters the gallery they will see along one wall a
series of beautifully crafted museum cases. Interpretive elements will be
available to explain the nature of the objects within each case. On the
opposite wall are the crates that once housed the objects within the cases.
On each of the walls perpendicular to the ones previously
mentioned will be videos playing of the installation and de-installation of the
objects emphasizing the temporary nature of museum exhibitions.
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