Wall text description for the exhibition Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, August 4 — September 12, 1982 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
In the age of hyper - conceptual art, the story about the art often resides less in the object than in the stories that are told about it: the curator talks and
wall text descriptions.
Not exact matches
The
wall -
texts are few and far between, the single - paragraphed
descriptions are unclouded by scholarly references, and the show's diverse pairings of art across all mediums feel intuitive, playful, and sincere.
From the show's tedious press release, it's unclear — the
description is stuffed with as many buzzwords as a Whitney Biennial
wall text.
When Arcadia Missa co-founder and THE ANGRY SHOW curator Rózsa Farkas accidentally emailed me her «secret planning pdf», I was confused by the artwork
descriptions like «perhaps the goetse vid and the
text she wrote on the modern phallic subject in htsf, in vinyl on the
wall» for Jesse Darling's «Mouf» (2013) video.
It becomes a thin colored line bordering the portals that connect the different sections of the exhibition, it interacts with the building surfaces — highlighting the
description texts printed on the gallery
walls, creating video - projections, reflecting the window frames in a visual dialogue which poetically emphasize their role in architecture.
On the north side was the exhibition title and
description, the only
wall text; on the south - side was a copy of Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadow and Substance, published in 2015, the book by exhibition curator Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby from which the exhibition brochure content was adapted.
They remain hidden, but a
text on a
wall close to the sign discloses a
description of the objects within.
which it's said to be in gallery
wall text and
descriptions from the museum's online collection catalog.
Some of the more biting lines from Mokgosi's rambling, yet keen, curatorial critique include: «what a magically natural and pointless
description» and «here the
wall labels reframe the
text towards a narrative that fulfills the deeds of so - called historical considerations of the city.»
The
wall text accompanying the stools is a product
description for the stools pulled directly from the manufacturer's website and catalog.