Works always need a place and a layout. Any place can be an exhibition venue.
Works always need a place and a layout. Any place can be an exhibition venue.
By taking into examination some examples of exhibitions from the 1960s to 2000s, the course investigates the role of exhibitions as a critical device and content production tool, analysing how display practices are continually evolving and dialogue with the works themselves. This leads to reflection on how display dynamics spark a complex relationship between artist, exhibition space and curator.
The course will teach basic display notions, with relative references as to what is meant by the correct layout and communication of the works. It will go into technical aspects, such as the management of the physical space in the exhibition, critical aspects such as the kind of explanatory texts that present a work, and phenomenological aspects, such as the importance of constantly remodelling the sense of a work as a function of its display. At the end of the three days, a piece of group work will be proposed to round off the course: to build and try out some types of display in class with works by artists working with different languages.
An extensive bibliography will also be provided of both the theoretical and museographical references made during the course and of works dealing with the recent developments in curatorship practices and ways of dialoguing with artists.
Stefano Coletto, laureato in Storia dell’arte con una tesi in Estetica presso l’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, lavora dal 2003 come curatore presso l’Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, prima come curatore delle mostre e poi come coordinatore delle attività.
Programme
Morning
-course presentation and introduction to a cognitive approach to display practices
Afternoon
-Introduction to the figure of the curator and exhibition display basics
Morning
-Artist-curated exhibitions and format experimentation: examples of historical exhibitions of contemporary art from the 1960s to 1970s
Afternoon
-Examples of contemporary artists and displays of their works
Morning
-Allocation of some works and artists to display in a group work exercise
-Project preparation
Afternoon
-Group presentation of the various displays imagined by the participants in the FMAV venues. Discussion of weak points and conclusions.