The Perfect Modern Art Exhibition - help! (1 Viewer)

[501n2u]

Hey guys, I was just wondering if anyone could help me out with a slight dilemma. For my art assignment I need to curate an exhibition of my own choice of 10 artworks based on my understanding of Modernism. It says I need to include a curator statement (min. 3 paragraphs) and I have no idea what that is. I've googled curator statement but I've had no luck in understanding what I need to do. If anyone could help me out that would be fab, thanks.

 

[Porcia]

simple - just like a reflection statement. why u chose these paintings, what effects are they supposed to have individually and as a whole, which is the keynote painting, whats ur theme, and ur reflection process

 

[501n2u]

ohhhh... is that it! thank you so much! i've been stuck on that for almost an hour ><

 

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Yep Porcia is exactly right

It's just a statement at the beginning of your exhibition catalogue (if you're making one) that introduces the exhibition, what it's about, what you hope it to convey, what it's significance is, maybe talk about some key works etc etc etc.


Good luck with it!

 

[James87]

Hey there
That is actually a cool assignment, when i was in year 12, last year, our teacher kept us away from the curator/exhibition type questions, but they sound easy/fun.
In simple terms, a curator is the person within an art gallery (thus within an exhibition) that selects art works for a particular gallery/exhibition. Obviously, a specific exhibiton like the one in your question has a specialised theme, unlike maybe a large gallery e.g. AGNSW. If I was you, out of interest, I would have a poke around at the AGNSW website and have a browse at what Edmund Capon (hopefully correct spelling) says on the site and find whatever you can - he is the curator of a pretty important gallery. Out of curiosity, what artists/works are you selecting for your assignment? What defines modernity for you?

Sorry, being at uni now, doing a degree as far from art/creative arts as possible means art deprivation - and u've got my 'art juices' flowing again. Theory is fantastic.

Peace.

P.S. Whoops, misread your question. You wanted to know what a curator statement is, opposed to a curator - sorry!

 

[501n2u]

Hey there
That is actually a cool assignment, when i was in year 12, last year, our teacher kept us away from the curator/exhibition type questions, but they sound easy/fun.
In simple terms, a curator is the person within an art gallery (thus within an exhibition) that selects art works for a particular gallery/exhibition. Obviously, a specific exhibiton like the one in your question has a specialised theme, unlike maybe a large gallery e.g. AGNSW. If I was you, out of interest, I would have a poke around at the AGNSW website and have a browse at what Edmund Capon (hopefully correct spelling) says on the site and find whatever you can - he is the curator of a pretty important gallery. Out of curiosity, what artists/works are you selecting for your assignment? What defines modernity for you?

Sorry, being at uni now, doing a degree as far from art/creative arts as possible means art deprivation - and u've got my 'art juices' flowing again. Theory is fantastic.

Peace.

P.S. Whoops, misread your question. You wanted to know what a curator statement is, opposed to a curator - sorry!

Yeah, I guess it is a pretty cool assignment. I like being able to choose my own artworks because it's what I like rather than doing it on something I'm not too interested in. How come your teacher kept you away from curator/exhibition type questions? Thanks, I did go onto AGNSW to get some inspiration etc. The theme I've been thinking of would incorporate and deal with the ideas of power, sexuality, love, childhood and feminism. I've also emailed my art teacher and he said it was a good idea to combine my ideas into one theme, he suggested for a title I could do "Love and power from a feminist perspective". He also gave me a few artists who I could look at like Louise Bourgouise, Carolee Sleeman, Faith Ringold, and Balthus although he is male his artworks deal with ideas of childhood and sexuality. I'm thinking of maybe doing an asian artist like Yoko Ono or Nam June Paik. Modern art would be defined as artwork that is expressed and shown by different mediums that are suitable, showing the audience/viewers that there's more than one way in seeing things. That's how I see it at least =].

 

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Modern art would be defined as artwork that is expressed and shown by different mediums that are suitable, showing the audience/viewers that there's more than one way in seeing things. That's how I see it at least =].

In a technical sense, 'Modern Art' started with Impressionism around about 1870 and ended with the last wave of movements that could actually be defined, in about 1970 (Graffiti Art, Land Art, Body Art etc).

Wikipedia offers a good description-
Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. (Recent art production is more often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the then new approach to art where it was no longer important to represent a subject realistically — the invention of photography had made this function of art obsolete. Instead, artists started experimenting with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature, materials and functions of art, often moving further toward abstraction.

Find this article here if you're interested - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

 

[Porcia]

and to add to your list, i would include artists from a wide timespan to substantiate your argument accordingly. u could use the venus of willendorf (a very cliched example though) as a representation of power through her munificent breasts, sexuality through exaggerated organs etc... but remember; it is an EXTREMELY cliched artwork,

 

[501n2u]

Cool thanks guys, I'll have a look into those =]. Much appreciated.