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In 2011 the getty research institute announced the acquisition of the archives of the auratic swiss curator tens of. These were the conditions under which harald szeemann began to make exhibitions. Historical importance, glamour, big spendersit continues to be an art festival like no other. Szeemanns address list for his visit to san francisco 1968 hard al seez mann ink on paper d.
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Kwons research and writings have engaged several disciplines including contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. Beyond objecthood focuses on innovative figures, artworks, and institutions that pioneered the exhibition as a critical form, tracing its evolution through the activities of curator harald szeemann, relational art, and new institutionalism. Perhaps the most famous curator of the postworld war ii era, szeemann. Swiss art curator harald szeemann 19332005 organized more than 150 exhibitions during a career that spanned almost five decades. Harald szeemann and the road back to the museum, grj.
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Museum of obsessions museo delle ossessioni analizza le tappe fondamentali della vita e della carriera di harald szeemann berna, 1933 tegna. Harald szeemann, 49th venice biennale catalogue, 2001, on his choice of title platea. A generation of curators and viewers has been inspired by harald szeemann. Europaische utopien seit 1800as the subject for a sustained, semesterlong analysis.
Szeemann modeled this exhibition catalog after his own burgeoning archive. Postcards from harald szeemann s collection of pataphysics material. Interestingly, at that time the book was one of only six published on the subject, a fact that surely underscores how rapidly the curatorial field has developed in the last ten years. We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to harald szeemannthe first of the jetsetting international curators. Front and back of harald szeemann s address list for his visit to new york, 1968.
Harald szeemann with by through because towards despite. Books by harald szeemann author of annette messager. Mar 01, 2008 we owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to harald szeemann the first of the jetsetting international curators. The artists letters and postcards to his wife, 12 february19 march 1937. Series editor kate fowle copyeditor audrey walen designer scott panik publication coordinator chelsea haines researcher jessica gogan printer the prolific group, winnipeg, canada library of congress control number. Harald szeemann asked this in a typewritten leaflet accompanying grandfather. Apr 30, 2018 harald szeemann organized a show called friends and their friends in 1969, his last year as chief curator at the kunsthalle bern. Harald szeemann download harald szeemann ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. More than anything, museum of obsessions is a triumphant demonstration of the. Reconsidering the exhibition when attitudes become. Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a museum of obsessions. From 1961 to 1969, he was curator of the kunsthalle bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight to give christo and jeanneclaude the opportunity to wrap the entire museum building. This article is within the scope of wikiproject biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize wikipedia s articles about people. Harald szeemann 1933 2005 is without doubt one of the most authoritative figures of contemporary curatorial practice.
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A journey through his archive, which has been temporarily transferred to the art museum of mendrisio for the occasion. Download pdf harald szeemann free online new books in. Elective affinitiesrene magritte as the guest of his patron edward james in london. Pdf harald szeemann and the road back to the museum, grj. Rmedl metasound metacuratorial practices platform its a inner organization of rmedl, constituted for the experimentation of conceptualprojectual methodologies for the production, communication and development of contemporary art events connected to the art of listeningsound art, through the construction of metacuratorial artistic practices focused on extreme, transgressive, unorthodox. Szeemann began organizing exhibitions in switzerland in 1957, and in 1961 he was appointed as director of the kunsthalle bern at the age.
This resultant anthology reverberates with that exhibitions impact. Poster and invitation for the exhibition dedicated to harald szeemann and his main exhibition projects. He had a short but intense career in theatre during the 1950s, which included a homage to dadaist hugo ball and a oneman production of ur faust where he played all the roles himself. Szeemann s address list for his visit to san francisco 1968 hard al seez mann ink on paper d. Pdf harald szeemann in context salvatore lacagnina and. Harald szeemann books list of books by harald szeemann. She was a founding co editor and publisher of documents, a journal of art, culture, and criticism 19922004, and serves on the advisory board of october magazine. Worksconceptsprocessessituationsinformation 1969 pdf. Voorhies examines recent artistic and curatorial work by liam gillick, thomas hirschhorn, carsten holler.
The 10 most influential figures in chinese contemporary art. This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the. It covers her broad range of interests in avantgarde production in both contemporary art and experimental cinema. By hans ulrich obrist documents obrist, hans ulrich, hopps, walter, hulten, pontus, lippard, lucy r. Harald szeemann june 11, 1933 in bern february 18, 2005 in tegna, ticino was a swiss curator and art historian. After studying art history, archaeology and journalism in bern and paris, szeemann began. Selected artists were told to invite their friends, and dieter roth. Although he is now generally acknowledged as the first independent curator, he also appropriated the concept of care from the conventional root of the kate fowle great war, as well as signs that revealed how much money the previous govern. Correspondents of note include yvonne rainer, susan sontag, maurice tuchman, and harald szeemann. Harald szeemann s most popular book is self taught artists 20th cent harald szeemann has 28 books on goodreads with 215 ratings.
Martin, gerardo mosquera, and harald szeemann, to name a fewoffered advice to a new generation of curators. Harald szeemann 11 june 1933 18 february 2005 was a swiss museum director, curator and organizer of. He was recently appointed senior editor of the exhibitionist, a journal of exhibition making founded in 2010 by jens hoffmann and tara mcdowell. Archives in curatorial practices hapgood, who was also one of the editors of the book. He has played a considerable role in the development of exhibition curating since the 1960s, and many arthistorical books refer to his groundbreaking exhibition when attitudes become form 1969.
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