Rail: I think we've reached a point where we are so used to art being burdened by
the curatorial conceit, and it really affects the way we see the works themselves.
How did you select these pieces and artists, and what is
the curatorial conceit that binds them together?
The show is titled 25 Years of Talent and uses David Robbins's renowned photo composition «Talent» as
a curatorial conceit.
A selection of Lynda Benglis's work — from her process - oriented poured - latex sculptures and fallen paintings of the 1960s to the videos and pleated gilt sculptures that followed — is being exhibited across four institutions, in as many countries, each iteration with its own
curatorial conceit.
«In «Continuous Present,» the current exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, a very loose
curatorial conceit ties together the work of a disparate group of seasoned and established artists.
Given the artist list, we're looking forward to see how
that curatorial conceit will come together.
But his impeccable hanging of Bess's paintings in a room of their own, supplemented by documentary materials and clearly written, informative texts, turns
a curatorial conceit into a public service.
It's a kind of
a curatorial conceit, in a way.
Often, the group looks back, using the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts as a space in which to recontextualize a moment in history through the lens of their particular
curatorial conceit.
Wasn't this year's Venice Biennale exhibition supposed to do away with grand
curatorial conceits?
If MoMA's curators want this show to function like a real biennial, though — and signs are that they do — then they need to really go for it, to relax not just their material definition of the photograph but also some of
the curatorial conceits that have governed photography at MoMA since Szarkowski's tenure.
Not exact matches
Michelle Grabner: Our great team of
curatorial assistants and exhibition coordinator are the glue to this three - curator
conceit.
«POSSESSED» WESTERN BRIDGE The
conceit of «Possessed» - the overlap between the things that we own and the things that own us - is a common - enough
curatorial theme, but this exhibition had no...