Did someone ask for a homage to Szeemann?
Harald Szeemann: Individual Methodology
We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to Harald Szeemann--the first of the jet-setting international curators. From 1961 to 1969, he was Curator of the Kunsthalle Bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight to give Christo and Jeanne-Claude the opportunity to wrap the entire museum building. Szeemann's groundbreaking 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, also at the Kunsthalle, introduced European audiences to artists like Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Lawrence Weiner. It also introduced the now-commonplace practice of curating an exhibition around a theme. Since Szeemann's death in 2005, there has been research underway at his archive in Tessin, Switzerland. An invaluable resource, this volume provides access to previously unpublished plans, documents and photographs from the archive, along with important essays by Hal Foster and Jean-Marc Poinsot. There is also an informative interview with Tobia Bezzola--curator at the Kunsthauz Zurich and Szeemann's collaborator for many years. Two of Szeemann's most ambitious exhibitions are presented as case studies: Documenta V (1972) and L'Autre, the 4th Lyon Biennial (1997). A biography, an illustrated chronology of Szeemann's exhibitions and a selection of his writings complete this exhaustive survey.
Harald Szeemann: The Exhibition Maker
A generation of curators and viewers has been inspired by Harald Szeemann's independently organized exhibitions and his emphatic methods of presenting contemporary art. This volume describes the "Szeemann principle", the visions of an enlightened curator, and provides an overview of the most important stations of his singular curatorial career: the legendary exhibitions When Attitudes Become Form and Documenta 5; the great thematic explorations such as Bachelor Machines; and his discoveries of young Eastern European scenes. In retrospect, Szeemann's infallible interest in artistic loners with strong attitudes and powerful personalities seems like a vehement contradiction of an art market that focuses on trends and movements. In the last 10 years of Szeemann's life, he sought the new as avidly as ever, as viewers will note in documentation of his fourth Lyon Biennale, second Kwangju Biennial, both the 1999 and 2001 Venice Biennales, and the first Seville Biennial, which closed two months before his death: it was themed The Joy of My Dreams.
A generation of curators and viewers has been inspired by Harald Szeemann's independently organized exhibitions and his emphatic methods of presenting contemporary art. This volume describes the "Szeemann principle", the visions of an enlightened curator, and provides an overview of the most important stations of his singular curatorial career: the legendary exhibitions When Attitudes Become Form and Documenta 5; the great thematic explorations such as Bachelor Machines; and his discoveries of young Eastern European scenes. In retrospect, Szeemann's infallible interest in artistic loners with strong attitudes and powerful personalities seems like a vehement contradiction of an art market that focuses on trends and movements. In the last 10 years of Szeemann's life, he sought the new as avidly as ever, as viewers will note in documentation of his fourth Lyon Biennale, second Kwangju Biennial, both the 1999 and 2001 Venice Biennales, and the first Seville Biennial, which closed two months before his death: it was themed The Joy of My Dreams.
Harald Szeemann – with by through because towards despite
This is a ground-breaking work that adds much to our understanding of art history. It is the first exhaustive documentation of all the exhibitions initiated and planned by one of the art world’s greatest figures. It is a comprehensive appraisal of the work of Harald Szeemann, who has an international reputation as one of the most creative of today's exhibition-makers. Numerous documents, notes, sketches, photos, commentaries, reactions, explanations and recollections convey an extremely lively picture of how Szeemann's ideas and concepts are put into practice, as well as his philosophy and understanding of art, which can be summed up in the phrase ‘with by through because towards despite’. The diverse and informative material reflects the development of art in the second half of the 20th century. This book is an indispensable working tool and reference work covering the history of art over the last 45 years and includes a detailed bibliography enabling the reader to conduct follow-up research.
And not Szeemann related, but still really cool:
MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art
The MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art has changed and evolved over the past thirty years but has always remained true to its guiding principles as an exhibition project that challenges conventions, privileges artists and their ideas, and experiments with form and content. In this vein, the new book MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art was conceived as a project in its own right, born in a spirit of experimentation and in collaboration with Project Projects, the design partnership of Prem Krishnamurthy and Adam Michaels. Arrayed loosely, as if spread out on a table, the book’s visual elements—ephemera, installation views, production materials—speak to the process of making each exhibition, in a collaged and anecdotal form. Individually, these visual essays are compelling snapshots of their time, each a condensation of the thoughts and actions of a particular artist; in aggregate, laid side by side, they narrate an arc through thirty years of contemporary art practice. The book also features newly commissioned interviews, including conversations between MATRIX artists and curators.
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