What is missing in a Lucian Freud exhibition?
In the minds of many people, curatorship is associated with the ideas of selection, choice, and the power to decide what will be included and what will not be seen. However, during the recent Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting exhibition tour, organised by the Art Business Society in collaboration with the curatorial assistant involved in the show’s production, I found…
Another Rave Review: Tracey Emin’s A Second Life
Tracey Emin’s landmark exhibition ‘A Second Life’ threw itself into the London Artscape at the end of February. Her ‘Sex and Solitude’ at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence last year left me wanting more. The major retrospective, held at the Tate Modern, spans the entirety of Emin’s career from the late 90s to today and includes paper works, embroidered blankets, bronze sculptures, appropriated objects, neons, video art, and large-scale canvas paintings. I…
On ‘Immersive Exhibitions’ and Being Present
The question of ‘immersion’ when facing an artwork is brought into a curious precarity through the emergent phenomenon of ‘immersive exhibitions’. These are typically understood as a digital spectacle, where visitors walk through altered projections of famous artworks, dramatically increasedin scale and rendered in such a way that viewing the whole image at once becomes an impossibility. The projectioncomes to encompass the entirety…
Paper Galleries 