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Elective affinitiesrene magritte as the guest of his patron edward james in london. Harald szeemann 11 june 1933 18 february 2005 was a swiss curator, artist, and art historian. Martin, gerardo mosquera, and harald szeemann, to name a fewoffered advice to a new generation of curators. Harald szeemann switzerland 19332005 live in your head. We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to harald szeemann the first of the jetsetting international curators. Independent curators international fallwinter 2012.
It was only a matter of time until we got our harald szeemann show. With countless new museums, galleries, and talents coming to the fore, china is a rising start on the market. A generation of curators and viewers has been inspired by harald szeemann. Harald szeemann archive and library at the getty research institute. Perhaps the most famous curator of the postworld war ii era, szeemann was an. Rmedl metasound metacuratorial practices platform its a inner organization of rmedl, constituted for the experimentation of conceptualprojectual methodologies for the production, communication and development of contemporary art events connected to the art of listeningsound art, through the construction of metacuratorial artistic practices focused on extreme, transgressive, unorthodox. Yes, i also think that the curator has his own evolution. Many artists, including both participants and nonparticipants in the exhibition, expressed severe criticism of. Harald szeemann archive and library getty research institute. Having curated more than 200 exhibitions, many of which have been characterized as groundbreaking, szeemann is said to have helped redefine the role of an art curator. We profile ten of the most important figures in chinese contemporary art. Szeemann began organizing exhibitions in switzerland in 1957, and in 1961 he was appointed as director of the kunsthalle bern at the age.
He had a short but intense career in theatre during the 1950s, which included a homage to dadaist hugo ball and a oneman production of ur faust where he played all the roles himself. These were the conditions under which harald szeemann began to make exhibitions. Interestingly, at that time the book was one of only six published on the subject, a fact that surely underscores how rapidly the curatorial field has developed in the last ten years. As the largest single archival collection ever acquired by the getty research institute, the harald szeemann archive and library is an essential and significant resource for the study of 20th century art and art history. A journey through his archive, which has been temporarily transferred to the art museum of mendrisio for the occasion. Harald szeemann 1933 2005 is without doubt one of the most authoritative figures of contemporary curatorial practice. Tijana miskovic curating, art consultancy and selling of. Swiss art curator harald szeemann 19332005 organized more than 150 exhibitions during a career that spanned almost five decades. Comments on harald szeemann and the exhibition when attitudes become form article in the journal of arts management law and society 401.
Poster and invitation for the exhibition dedicated to harald szeemann and his main exhibition projects. Beyond objecthood focuses on innovative figures, artworks, and institutions that pioneered the exhibition as a critical form, tracing its evolution through the activities of curator harald szeemann, relational art, and new institutionalism. Harald szeemann download harald szeemann ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a museum of obsessions. This resultant anthology reverberates with that exhibitions impact. Pdf harald szeemann in context salvatore lacagnina and. Her professional papers contain writing, ranging from her early work in paris. More than anything, museum of obsessions is a triumphant demonstration of the. This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the. This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists books, posters. The lives of novelist george sand 180476, writer and psychoanalyst lou. From 1961 to 1969, he was curator of the kunsthalle bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight to give christo and jeanneclaude the opportunity to wrap the entire museum building.
Mar 01, 2008 we owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to harald szeemann the first of the jetsetting international curators. He has played a considerable role in the development of exhibition curating since the 1960s, and many arthistorical books refer to his groundbreaking exhibition when attitudes become form 1969. As isas if replaces the usual, more general survey format of curating now with a focused collection of essays and. If you have access to this journal as a benefit of membership in the sponsoring organization, log in through the member link in the right column. It was built in 19171918 by the kunsthalle bern association and opened on october 5, 1918. Selected artists were told to invite their friends, and dieter roth. Harald szeemann 11 june 1933 18 february 2005 was a swiss museum director, curator and organizer of. After studying art history, archaeology and journalism in bern and paris, szeemann began. Szeemann s profession of belief in art pour lart was viewed as a provocation in 1972.
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