The seminar excursion to Cincinnati will be a first opportunity for the class to be looking not only at exhibition design from a specific angle, but also to test how to work in teams in order to document a specific place visited. This serves as a preparation for the semester in Berlin, where we will often be in a place for a short period of time and will rely on everyone contributing to collect all the information necessary.
Here a preliminary diagram for the documentation teams.
March 29:
Meeting is scheduled for 11 am at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The tour at the CAC then starts at 2 pm. More details announced next week.
In Cincinnati, there will be 2 places visited, the Contemporay Arts Museum as well as the Cincinnati Art Museum.
There will be two different artists that we will look at:
- Daniel Libeskind @ the CAC
- Sol LeWitt @ the CAC and the Cincinnati Art Museum
2 pm: Blurring Lines: Daniel Libeskind
The focus on this exhibition will be specifically relevant for our work during the semester in Berlin. Not only because we will focus on an exhibition design for the collection in the Jewish Museum Berlin (built by Daniel Libeskind), but because the architect has taken great care that his designs and visions are reflected in the exhibition space concept:
“We created a space in counterpoint to the exhibition space. The structures break out of the box and create sculptural perspectives in which image and text are in play.” According to Libeskind, the exhibition, specifically designed for the Lower Second floor Gallery of the Contemporary Arts Center, is “part of a language of architecture that is crystal clear, optimistic and free.” This language unites all of Libeskind’s projects, from residential structures to public institutions. (source: CAC website)
The seminar will be guided through the exhibition by Jerzy Rozenberg as part of a public event in the CAC, and also participate in the discussion that is scheduled as part of this event. The event starts at 2 pm. Assignment details will be published as soon as the teams working with different media for documentation of the exhibition have been established.
11 am: Sol LeWitt x 2
The Cincinnati Art Museum and the Contemporary Arts Center are partnering to present LeWitt X 2, a two-part exhibition organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Art Museum will present Selections from The LeWitt Collection, which includes over 100 objects dating from 1960 to the present. LeWitt, one of the forefathers of Conceptual Art, traded ideas and artwork with his peers. These works by artist Sol LeWitt’s colleagues reflect approaches to conceptual art in a variety of media including photography, painting, and sculpture. As LeWitt explained in Sentences on Conceptual Art, “Ideas can be works of art,” and each artist represented in Selections from the LeWitt Collection builds on this using their own methods.
LeWitt: Structure and Line
Offers a look at LeWitt’s own career and is exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center. He is probably best known for his structures (a term he preferred over sculpture) and wall drawings.
As a key figure in a generation of artists that rejected Abstract Expressionism, LeWitt bridged Minimalism and Conceptual Art by emphasizing ideas as the basis for creating art. In his words, “the idea is the machine that makes art.” Exemplifying this approach are his monumental wall drawings, which are executed directly on the wall according to the artist’s instruction, often by his assistants. Since completing his first wall drawing in 1968, he created over twelve hundred wall drawings for museums and public spaces around the world. LeWitt is also well known for his three-dimensional structures, a term he preferred to sculpture. Closely linked to the structures are LeWitt’s works on paper, which range from his early explorations of line to colorful gouaches and the recent Scribble drawings. Sol LeWitt: Structure and Line will prominently feature drawings from the 1970’s; gouaches from the early 1990’s to present; a sampling of maquettes made for large-scale concretes block structures; and a number of his structures. These works are drawn from LeWitt’s personal collection and provide an excellent overview of his career. (source: CAC website)
MISSION 3
see here for further details on the QUILT, PORSCHE, REMBRANDT and MAPS&MANIFESTS exhibitions. Please leave a comment below if you think that you can organize your time well enough to visit one of the exhibitions as well (after the official parts).
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