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Genealogies of art, or the history of art as visual art
Museo Picasso M谩laga and Fundaci贸n Juan March present the exhibition Genealogies of art, or the history of art as visual art, which has been devised and organized by a team of curators comprising Manuel Font谩n del Junco, Director of museums and exhibitions at Fundaci贸n Juan March; Jos茅 Lebrero Stals, artistic director of Museo Picasso M谩laga, and Mar铆a Zozaya 脕lvarez, head of exhibition projects at Fundaci贸n Juan March.
Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Paul C茅zanne, Robert Delaunay, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand L茅ger, The Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir贸, Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Paul Klee or Henry Moore are some of the artists present in this exhibition that will be on display at Museo Picasso M谩laga next February 2020. Co-produced by Fundaci贸n Juan March and Museo Picasso M谩laga, the exhibition deals with visual narratives of art history from the specific viewpoint of how they are practiced by museums and in exhibitions.
If art history is composed of objects which are destined to be seen, then shouldn鈥檛 the way we narrate it also be very visual? Certainly, textual and abstract narration has prevailed over a visual, specific one. The exhibition aims to compensate for this lack by showcasing the different visual ways of narrating these histories.
Genealogies of art, or the history of art as visual art is a show that deals with the ways of visually narrating a history (that of art) from a specific curatorial point of view, with one foot firmly placed in curatorial practice, and the other in visual thinking, certain literary theories, and the work of Visual Studies themselves. It is also an exhibition about another exhibition, the outstanding Cubism and Abstract Art exhibition which was presented in 1936 at New York鈥檚 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as well as about the museum鈥檚 founder, Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (1902-1981). MoMA was the first modern art museum in the world, and Hamilton Barr was the first 鈥渃urator鈥�, in the contemporary sense of the word. For these two reasons, the exhibition is also an exercise in the reconstruction of what may have been the most ambitious attempt ever made to provide art of the first half of the 20th century with a genealogy covering almost three generations.
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Museo Picasso M谩laga and Fundaci贸n Juan March present the exhibition Genealogies of art, or the history of art as visual art, which has been devised and organized by a team of curators comprising Manuel Font谩n del Junco, Director of museums and exhibitions at Fundaci贸n Juan March; Jos茅 Lebrero Stals, artistic director of Museo Picasso M谩laga, and Mar铆a Zozaya 脕lvarez, head of exhibition projects at Fundaci贸n Juan March.
Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brancusi, Paul C茅zanne, Robert Delaunay, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Vasily Kandinsky, Fernand L茅ger, The Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Joan Mir贸, Piet Mondrian, Georges Braque, Paul Klee or Henry Moore are some of the artists present in this exhibition that will be on display at Museo Picasso M谩laga next February 2020. Co-produced by Fundaci贸n Juan March and Museo Picasso M谩laga, the exhibition deals with visual narratives of art history from the specific viewpoint of how they are practiced by museums and in exhibitions.
If art history is composed of objects which are destined to be seen, then shouldn鈥檛 the way we narrate it also be very visual? Certainly, textual and abstract narration has prevailed over a visual, specific one. The exhibition aims to compensate for this lack by showcasing the different visual ways of narrating these histories.
Genealogies of art, or the history of art as visual art is a show that deals with the ways of visually narrating a history (that of art) from a specific curatorial point of view, with one foot firmly placed in curatorial practice, and the other in visual thinking, certain literary theories, and the work of Visual Studies themselves. It is also an exhibition about another exhibition, the outstanding Cubism and Abstract Art exhibition which was presented in 1936 at New York鈥檚 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as well as about the museum鈥檚 founder, Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (1902-1981). MoMA was the first modern art museum in the world, and Hamilton Barr was the first 鈥渃urator鈥�, in the contemporary sense of the word. For these two reasons, the exhibition is also an exercise in the reconstruction of what may have been the most ambitious attempt ever made to provide art of the first half of the 20th century with a genealogy covering almost three generations.
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