The Kingdom / Room 1

In this Assignment students will work together in small groups to curate an Art Exhibition. First you will collectively select a theme that unifies the artworks in your exhibition. Then you will design an exhibition from the images and presentations that I have been showing in class as well as any other artworks we have seen in galleries or museums. You should arrange the images and their documentary information in a sequence that would reflect how someone might navigate through the gallery, similar to a catalogue of the exhibition.

Below is an example that I organized into three separate "rooms". I selected the theme "The Kingdom" and draw upon the thesis of how animals and our relationships with them have contributed  to the development of visual language as well as physically effecting numerous techniques and materials of several different media and artistic processes. 

Pablo Picasso

Bull, Plate III

1945

Lithograph

12 3/8" x 18 7/8"

http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Picasso_Themes_and_Variations/picasso_themes_moma_2010_10.htm

Pablo Picasso

Bull, Plate IV

1945

Lithograph

12 3/8" x 18 7/8"

http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Picasso_Themes_and_Variations/picasso_themes_moma_2010_10.htm

Robert Rauschenberg

Something or other

1955-59

Assemblage: Taxidermy Goat, Oil paint, collage, on panel, on ground(pedestal)

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/113012271872760341/

 Robert Rauschenberg

Something or other

1955-59

Assemblage: Taxidermy Goat, Oil paint, collage, on panel, on ground(pedestal)

http://www.theslideprojector.com/art1/art1lecturepresentations/lecture1-6.html

Robert Rauschenberg

Something or other

1955-59

Assemblage: Taxidermy Goat, Oil paint, collage, on panel, on ground(pedestal)

http://www.theslideprojector.com/art1/art1lecturepresentations/lecture1-6.html

Maria Lassnig

Sleeping with a Tiger, 1979

Oil on canvas
Dimensions unknown
No Website to link to image

Damien Hirst

Golden Calf

2008

Glass, gold, gold-plated stainless steel, silicone, calf and formaldehyde solution with Carrara marble plinth

157.1 x 138 x 66 in

http://www.damienhirst.com/the-golden-calf

Vija Celmins

Web #5 1999

22" x 25.5"

Charcoal on Paper

www.http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/93

The Kingdom / Room 2

Rachelle Agundes

Water Fire Fight  2012

44" X 54" 

Oil on Canvas

http://www.rachelleagundes.com

Paul Mullins

Weak Knees

2011

72" x 72"

Oil, acrylic and colored pencil and collage on canvas

http://www.marxzav.com/artist.php?id=17

Joseph Bueys 

Video Still of I Like America and America Likes Me

1959

Video - Black & White Vintage Television and VCR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5UXAqpSJDk

Joseph Beuys 

Video of I Like America and America Likes Me

1959

Video - Projection - Dimensions Variable

Vimeo: Joseph Beuys in America

The Kingdom / Room 3

"In each of these pictures there is at least one dog. That's clear and it might not be no more than a gimmick. Yet in fact the dogs offer a key for opening a door. No, a gate - for here everything is outside, outside and beyond"

Pentti Sammallahti 

Dog with Bag

 1992

Dimensions unknown

http://www.candacedwan.com/#New_York/Artists/Pentti_Sammallahti

In Berger's earlier book About Looking he dedicates one chapter to animals and our relationship to them throughout the development of human civilization. Many historians agree that it was our relationship to the dog that brought us of out of the Paleolithic Age and into the Neolithic age. It was our acceptance into the pack that assisted in developing community amongst our own species.

Pentti Sammallahti

White eyed dog with boy

1992

Dimensions unknown

http://www.candacedwan.com/#New_York/Artists/Pentti_Sammallahti

Walker Evans

A Sharecropper's Yard

Hale County, Alabama 1936

Silver Print

5 5/8" x 8 5/16"

http://www.leegallery.com/walker-evans/walker-evans-photography

The human role within the Animal Kingdom has traversed a complicated and complex path. Gradually escalating ourselves above our planetary relatives and neighbors through first a cohesive and integrated relationship of agriculture and animal husbandry, and then through the Industrial Revolution’s territorial progress and development, the Kingdom has shifted from a ecological system that caters to one species alone, leaving the other creatures and ‘members’ of this kingdom to exist within the margins of man-made environments (National Parks & Zoos, Industrialized Farming, etc.). As their ‘natural’ world shrinks our development of compartmentalized environments grows at a rapidly increasing rate, and along with it the excess residue of such environments.

Vik Muniz 

Pictures of Junk Series (Saturn Devouring one of his sons After Francisco De Goya)

2005

Digital C-Print

93.5" x 74.5"

http://www.renabranstengallery.com/Muniz_Saturn.html