Or the emptiness in between exhibitions
I got to Graz and tried to go straight to the Kunsthalle that seems to have “the most interesting offer” in art in the city. Due to numerous appointments and working obligations I could not get to the museum on time and all exhibitions were already shot down. The museum was in the middle of in-between to exhibitions. I asked permission for going around and took pictures of the space in the void, the space in the particular situation of setting up of an exhibition, one of the moments that as an artist I enjoy the most, those minutes of high discussion with the museographer to set up in a particular way. Those instances where the workers of the museum are creating new spaces and boundaries for the next exhibition.
The museum is never an empty space, it is always a collection; always a future exhibition is hiding behind its walls. The museum, configured in the idea of space mutability, is a flexible structure that moves and reconstructs in an organic way. Even in the most classical exhibitions, where objects seem to be hanged without concern on the walls, there is a delicate and accurate study of the coherence of the exhibition. This linear structure of information given by the curator in alliance with the museographer, is to my concern, a system generated in that emptiness of space, a solution for the next step that can only exist in the void of the first.
This reminded me of an experience in Bremen, where an artist was invited to curate and “musealize” the collection of the Kunsthalle and the result was an exhibit of the internal structure that held the works of art inside the museum.
I got to Graz and tried to go straight to the Kunsthalle that seems to have “the most interesting offer” in art in the city. Due to numerous appointments and working obligations I could not get to the museum on time and all exhibitions were already shot down. The museum was in the middle of in-between to exhibitions. I asked permission for going around and took pictures of the space in the void, the space in the particular situation of setting up of an exhibition, one of the moments that as an artist I enjoy the most, those minutes of high discussion with the museographer to set up in a particular way. Those instances where the workers of the museum are creating new spaces and boundaries for the next exhibition.
The museum is never an empty space, it is always a collection; always a future exhibition is hiding behind its walls. The museum, configured in the idea of space mutability, is a flexible structure that moves and reconstructs in an organic way. Even in the most classical exhibitions, where objects seem to be hanged without concern on the walls, there is a delicate and accurate study of the coherence of the exhibition. This linear structure of information given by the curator in alliance with the museographer, is to my concern, a system generated in that emptiness of space, a solution for the next step that can only exist in the void of the first.
This reminded me of an experience in Bremen, where an artist was invited to curate and “musealize” the collection of the Kunsthalle and the result was an exhibit of the internal structure that held the works of art inside the museum.
