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
