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- Title: Landmark Exhibitions (Conference)
- Author : Art Monthly
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 47 KB
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In his keynote address at the start of this two-day conference, Hans Haacke focused first on the early years of Documenta, perhaps the quintessential 'landmark exhibition'. He recounted how he became involved in working on Documenta II while studying at the art academy in Kassel and how, through this experience, he was able to observe the ways in which Arnold Bode and his colleague Werner Haftmann set the terms for the exhibition--how Bode's choreography and stage management of the Fridericianum spaces articulated rankings between artists and art movements, how Haftmann became the exhibition's 'ideologue', and how the Documenta exhibition was used over the years to transform Kassel from an isolated backwater just a few miles from the Iron Curtain into a destination of national and international significance. Haacke illustrated these points with some of the 300 or so extraordinary black and white photographs he made in 1959--each observing relationships between works of art in the exhibition and the exhibition's visitors--and he suggested the many ways in which this early exposure to the workings of a great exhibition machine contributed to what he described as his loss of innocence, laying the ground for his subsequent preoccupation with interrelationships between 'symbolic' and economic capital.
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