Museum, concept of the past or still an adequate way to discuss art?
1 Machiko Agano "no titel" and Sheila Hicks "Linen Letter to Malevitch"
Do you even still visit museums?
2 Marie Schumann "Softspace"
When it came to museum exhibitions, I was always rather critical. Is it because I am an arty person with skill and knowledge to judge art? Or is it because school and hours of extreme boring guided tours across empty halls furnished with a few in understandable, expensive, untouchable things, traumatized me? Showing relicts from the past, made and produced by people that where dead before I was even born.
Discussions weather the artist meant one thing with it or the other.
3 Magdalena Abakanowicz "Abakan 28"
Don’t get me wrong I am not having an opinion here, this is just how I feel and felt. About a side of art brought to me by others.
4 Anne Flaten Pixley "Post and Paper"
Luckily, in my eyes, now days we are surrounded by so many more options. Then going this rather one-sided road. We don’t have to show our art in museums to “be” artists. Or whatever we want to be. Just the internet itself is full of opportunities.
And we can go even further, decentralization. Just as hive offers one way to expose and share, and no one is there anymore to judge whether you are “worth” of being exposed or not.
5 Machiko Agano "no titel"
There are no walls or entrance to this museum anymore. There is not wrong or right.
Wouldn’t all those artists from the past have wished for such an opportunity?
Not having to struggle, because it happened to be that your “art” was going against someone else’s believes? Or because a museums director didn’t choose your work because it wasn’t his taste?
6 Olga de Amaral "Caligrafia especial"
What an opportunity, why should we leave it unexplored to que up for an exhibition?
7 Magdalena Abakanowicz
Now if you are about to think how ignorant I am to write bad about all the museums in general, I was in one just today. And there where many very impressive fiber artworks exposed!
I don’t think there is right or wrong in the old or the new ways, they are just different and have all sides that actually bring people further and sides that make us stuck. On everyone themselves to choose what inspires them or doesn’t.
I started this article, with the intention to just show some photos of what I have seen in this exhibition today…
8 Machiko Agano "no titel"
…where are we going now?
Well I seem to have triggered some thoughts in my brain. Which is what I ended up sharing with some impressions of the exhibition.
I generally am not a big fan of museums, but I also like to do things I least expect from myself. That’s why I visited one today.
9 Sheila Hicks "Linen Letter to Malevitch
The artworks didn’t really stick to my head until the evening. Not because they are bad, just because in order to get enthusiastic or inspired I need a story, a face an idea behind something. Only seeing the result isn’t speaking to me that much.
Nevertheless I have to say, that I was really impressed by some of the details and the techniques used.
10 Lissy Funk "Lebensbaum"
What I got instead is, making the connection once more for myself. Feeling amazed once more, that I do have the opportunity to expose my work on a platform as hive. Having the opportunity of the internet and be more in control of my own work and where I want to go with it. How I want to expose it. And what I want to say about it.
I do not depend on a museum anymore if I want to be an artist. This is inspiring me!
Thank you to stop by once again, I really appreciate you all!!
Have a lovely week!
Ahhhh, dearest @kesityu.fashion - I love your sharing here and I resonate fully with you!!
I just began a podcast series, called 'What The F*** Is Art For?!' and it follows many sharings I've made around precisely the points you bring up above. So, yes, yes, yes, and you spur me on to do the next episode.
Without making an extensive essay as a response to your beautiful inquiry: absolutely, artists in the past have been increasingly manipulated and intentionally diminished and kept in poverty, because the mainstream and the 'specialist' conditioning around what is commonly referred to as 'art' are so very, very distorted from the original purpose and the divine co-creative/ healing/ transformative elements of (REAL!) Art.
As artists we know the magic of the process, and of having handmade and creative things all around us; having our homes filled with lovingly-handcrafted items and our wardrobes packed with heavenly natural hand-stitched garments. We KNOW that Art in the centre of our lives means vitaly, wealth, joy, pleasure, freedom, wholeness, care, focussed attention. All else is a mimicking this, but can never be this, because it is either mechanised or made outside of the heart and the hearth. (I write extensively about this in my work and on my website.)
The removal of 'art' from Art is very significant, as it is a symbol of how we have been pulled into consumerism and passivity rather than exploring our immense and divinely-gifted creative power - which, if left to its natural devices, would bring us into harmony and fruitfullness, instead of keeping us in conditioned scarcity and fear of loss always.
It is wonderful to hear you questioning the 'norms' of gallery, museum and conventional art exposure things: I have not been involved in galleries at all for the majority of my art career (over 35 yrs), and every time I am in one, I get 'gallery fatigue' - like an energetic charge which is utterly exhausting and leaves my back aching terribly. Looking at 'art' out of the context of home and of life and community, is inherently uncomfortable, because it is not the truth of our creativity.
Anyways, I just wrote a small essay, and didn't mean to! Hehe!
LOVE to you beautiful woman,
Clare.
Indeed what a subject, we could talk about it for ever and ever...and there are endless sides to take in consideration, in that sense your essay is still quite small:) - do I find your podcast on your website? now you made me wonder:)
and yes, I get the gallery fatigue too, tough I think this is definitely triggered by all those tours we had to endure in school as kids, we couldnt even sit and it was just way to long and booring... mind you then I had an art-history teacher and she was so full of enthusiasm, that she actually managed to get me interested in all sorts of art/museums and so on..and again as you said, it is all about the connection!
It was lovely to have you around for this one:) cheers
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I used to visit museums when I had the opportunity, but now my options are limited to the fact that its a minority here where I am currently, so I would freely admit that I miss museums.
Where is this one? The tapestries and pieces are impressive, does the museum also have that accompanying smell of dusty materials?:D
Uuuh I have to disappoint you, no attic-smell:) Tough some of the tapestries smell interesting due to that they where made of fishing-ropes... In Zurich it was, how would you choose weather to visit a museum or not? Or you just try and figure it out later?
Oh, this is super cool! Never been to an art exhibition like this before. Interesting! I like the Anne Flaten Pixley "Post and Paper".
I havent seen anything like that before neighter... Yes isnt it? I was surprise in a way to see something made of paper, but on the other hand it really fits into the theme, also handmade (i assume that is how it was made) paper has such a lovely character.. Thanks for stopping by:)
I never had and opportunity to visit any of the two. And to be realistic the art textiles look so beautiful and I love it
I am glad you enjoyed it! thanks for stopping by:)
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Some of the displays do look interesting. !CTP
Indeed they do! Its nice to have you here:)