Despite a vague
curatorial statement about «underlying structures that order and shape the world around us,» works that activated their given and sometimes difficult spaces made a significant statement among the fair.
The curators Elmgreen & Dragset then announced the title and gave a brief
curatorial statement about the conceptual framework of the 15th Istanbul Biennial.
An artist's statement and / or
curatorial statement about the content of the work must also be included.
Not exact matches
Hunter writes: «In the show, twelve recent, mostly large - scale, conventionally stretched works share fast - looking brush strokes; few visible layers of oil or acrylic; a graphic, flat appearance that emphasizes surface; and the impression — confirmed in the
curatorial statement — that these paintings did not take long to make... The works in the exhibition raise the question, for me, of what it is that we value
about painting right now — where we locate meaning and value in paintings made quickly.»
Organized by Scott Rothkopf, the museum's deputy director of programs and chief curator, and Jessica Man, a
curatorial assistant, the show is accompanied by a catalog of more than 650 pages, which includes a memoir by the artist's mother, Carol Hendrickson, a public health nurse, who lives with her second husband next door to Owens and her family; testimonies
about how wonderful Owens is as a person and a painter from a bevy of artists, curators, dealers, and studio assistants; price lists from early exhibitions; essays, including one
about Elizabeth Murray by Francine Prose;
statements by influential people who were among the first wave to recognize her importance.
THE ORGANIZERS of the elegant Blinky Palermo retrospective at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen wasted no time in announcing their bold, materially focused agenda: At the entrance to the exhibition, visitors were greeted by a sequence of short videos featuring Palermo, whose own
statements about abstraction introduced, in effect, the daring
curatorial program within the galleries.
Gaitán's
curatorial statement, for example, talks
about how the process of the post-Cold War development of Berlin «reflects a larger tendency around the world to mobilize history in order to reflect certain dominant narratives».
Curator Francesca Herndon - Consagra mentions this explicitly in the conceptual
statement about the exhibition, referring to Tadao Ando's architecture and Rock Settee by Scott Burton as principle points of
curatorial investigation, and conflating them with the visual language and art historical touchstone of dreams.
It is a brand and a mentality, a
curatorial collection of exclusive products, a congenial pool of designers, a distributed
statement about design as cultural commentary, a medium, working with cutting edge designers and enlightened clients.»