Part oneโvisit the exhibition hall:
Questions to include and how to lay out the considerations
Under the guidance of the teacher, we went to Talbot Rice Gallery to visit the exhibition halls. At the same time, the teacher pixelated the contents of each exhibition hall. Here are the 8ย items that I think are the most important and memorable:
1. About the color:
The color of the exhibition hall of the art museum will have a great impact on the sense of space, comfort, utilization rate, environmental atmosphere, human physiology, and psychology of interior design.
James mentioned the Filipino artist who will be collaborating next year, hoping to use green to decorate the walls, the work is very focused on protest and defiance, so to show them in the museum, it’s like creating this interest intention with his work in a way. And I know that in a 2014 exhibition of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the curator chose to paint bright vermilion on the wall at the entrance to guide the audience to appreciate Toulouse-Lautrec’s lively illustrations. This gives people a strong declaration, “please focus on the various characters in the painter’s works”. The overall color of the exhibition hall of the art museum is in harmony with the exhibits. Different display categories are matched with different colors. This color design method not only plays an obvious role in visually dividing the exhibition hall space.https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1450
2. Wall
James mentioned video space and passive space, and in the middle of a walk, if you have everyone here watching the video and other people trying to go upstairs, it can be uncomfortable. In the curatorial practice I did before, I used plasterboard, and stuffing materials such as foam board or rock wool between them can provide sound insulation. Most of them will use solid wood boards, sound-absorbing board wood wool, and so on. False walls play a very important role. They can divide the exhibition area, increase changes, avoid monotony, change the landscape, increase the sense of hierarchy, organize and control the flow of people, and do a good job in the connection and transition of different spaces.
3. Attention to fire safety
Fire Exit SignsโMust check that the fire exits are unobstructed and do not place flammable items in the fire-safe area. (If the space of the exhibition hall is large, the fire and smoke exhaust system should adopt the traditional mechanical smoke exhaust system, supplemented by natural smoke exhaust design)
4. Wire
Regarding the arrangement of wires, James mentioned the work of Austin Lee, whose sculpture crosses the road from the ceiling to complete the mobile space. A lot of wires can be a big hassle, eight sets of wires for a speaker’s remote, you may have amplifiers and other types of media players that need to be carefully thought out about how to hide them in an exhibit.
5. The sound and ambientย
questions about the sound and ambient sound of the artworks in the exhibition hall
In the exhibition hall on the second floor, since the elevator is next to the video area of the exhibition hall, the sound of the elevator has become an unavoidable noise (I am also thinking about this issue and willcontinue to update the progress of my thinking)
6. Related paintings
Most of the works in the exhibition are on rice paper and canvas, which are very fragile works of art. People with backpacks walking on narrow balconies need to be reminded to be more cautious.
7. The pillars
In the exhibition, the benefits of the pillars are not only to support the left and right but also to hide the switches and plugs and how to use the historical structure to achieve the exhibition effect.
8. Protection of artworks
Preserving works of art is important, they are valuable, and in the process of figuring out where to put all this equipment that you use to transport things
Part twoโ90-minute workshop:
Following the train of thought of James, we start to think about things and artists.
After merging the tables, we thought about the general direction of the theme, and what I proposed was: relationship.
And I showed the example of the artist Yoko Ono, who showed the evil of human nature in an extremely deviant way of performance. After she got on the stage, she took the initiative to hand the scissors to the audience, and said that the next performance will be completed by the audience independently, and the audience can use the scissors to cut her clothes at will, any part is fine. She wants to use this kind of performance method is relatively deviant, but she herself also said that she did not expect such a result. While she felt humiliated, she also saw the evil of human nature through this incident, and understood that human nature is really not good enough. Bottom line.
โก๏ธJames outlines the most important points in a curatorial exercise: space, subject, funding, risk assessment and advocacy record…ย ย
- Funding: The operation of the gallery is the most important issue of funding. We have to take into account artist fees, we have to pay all the artists who are in the exhibition, we also have to prepare them well, because if they donโt feel like theyโre getting enough money, we canโt get them to perform and make it Tap into more energy.
- Documentation and publicity:ย Every exhibition we do, we need to have a professional photographer come to the space, because if you don’t document your exhibition, no one will remember it happening, so it’s about you building on what you can reputation, then sell the content needed to bring people into the show, hang banners in the street, put up posters in different cities, maybe collaborate with other artists or speakers.
Try to figure out what kind of exhibit you want to do, and various risk assessments to do, figure out if you’re going to show swimming pool art (the curatorial theme the first classmate came up with) and if the risk to the building from a leak is glass smashed What kind of damage would the debris and all the water entering the gallery cause, and how could this be prevented in the first place?๏ผThese issues are what I need to consider (I will continue to update)
