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The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the “curatorial turn” in critical theory. In 1985, the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated Les Immatériaux at Centre Georges Pompidou. Though widely misunderstood at the time, the exhibition marked a “curatorial turn” in critical theory. Through its experimental layout and(...)
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March 2020
Spacing philosophy: Lyotard and the idea of the exhibition
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The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the “curatorial turn” in critical theory. In 1985, the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated Les Immatériaux at Centre Georges Pompidou. Though widely misunderstood at the time, the exhibition marked a “curatorial turn” in critical theory. Through its experimental layout and hybrid presentation of objects, technologies, and ideas, this pioneering exploration of virtuality reflected on the exhibition as a medium of communication and anticipated a deeper engagement with immersive and digital space in both art and theory. In Spacing Philosophy, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology. Les Immatériaux can thus be seen as a culmination and materialization of a life's work as well as a primer for the many thought-exhibitions produced in the following decades.
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Le supermarché des images
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Le visible semble littéralement déborder d’images (plus de trois milliards d’entre elles circulent chaque jour sur les réseaux sociaux). Ce trop-plein, cette surproduction, il faut les gérer. Il faut stocker les images, les transporter, les formater, organiser leurs échanges et leurs flux. Elles requièrent des infrastructures routières (les câbles Internet), des formes(...)
Le supermarché des images
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Le visible semble littéralement déborder d’images (plus de trois milliards d’entre elles circulent chaque jour sur les réseaux sociaux). Ce trop-plein, cette surproduction, il faut les gérer. Il faut stocker les images, les transporter, les formater, organiser leurs échanges et leurs flux. Elles requièrent des infrastructures routières (les câbles Internet), des formes inédites de travail (les modérateurs de contenu, les ouvriers du clic). Et elles transforment notre regard, elles le mobilisent comme il ne l’a jamais été. En observant les mutations parallèles de l’économie financiarisée à l’ère des cryptomonnaies, les œuvres et les textes ici réunis cherchent à saisir, à penser cette nouvelle iconomie de la visibilité. Textes d’Emmanuel Alloa, Hervé Aubron, Matthias Bruhn, Yves Citton, Elena Esposito, Jean-Joseph Goux, Maurizio Lazzarato, Catherine Malabou, Marie Rebecchi et Elena Vogman, Antonio Somaini, Peter Szendy, Leah Temper, Dork Zabunyan.
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New exhibition design 03
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A broad overview of current concepts and trends in exhibition design and scenography from around the world. With more than 110 projects, there are numerous presentations with varied themes, content and ground-breaking designs. And more important than ever before, exhibitions are reliable places for education, enlightenment and democratisation.
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January 2019
New exhibition design 03
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A broad overview of current concepts and trends in exhibition design and scenography from around the world. With more than 110 projects, there are numerous presentations with varied themes, content and ground-breaking designs. And more important than ever before, exhibitions are reliable places for education, enlightenment and democratisation.
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Detail X 2: Museums / Museen
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A game for culture lovers and architecture fans, the ''DETAIL × 2'' set of cards presents 32 museums and cultural centres, galleries and exhibition halls. The iconic designs are scattered across various countries worldwide and rank among the most striking museum architecture designs of the past two decades. The goal is to find the matching pair: which floor plan or(...)
Detail X 2: Museums / Museen
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A game for culture lovers and architecture fans, the ''DETAIL × 2'' set of cards presents 32 museums and cultural centres, galleries and exhibition halls. The iconic designs are scattered across various countries worldwide and rank among the most striking museum architecture designs of the past two decades. The goal is to find the matching pair: which floor plan or profile belongs to which photo? Milestones such as the Prada Foundation by OMA in Milan or the Louvre Lens by SANAA are included in the game. The card game will jumpstart your brain cells and reveal the pros among architecture fans. Who will be the first to recognize exhibition spaces? Which profile matches which photo? As an aid, we have included an overview poster on which all museums are listed along with project dates.
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The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the museum’s 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visual material is previously unpublished(...)
Designing the V: the museum as a work of art (1857-1909)
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The building of the Victoria and Albert Museum, begun in 1857, is the most elaborately designed and decorated museum in Britain. This book is the first to consider the V as a work of art in itself, presenting drawings, watercolours and historic photographs relating to the museum’s 19th-century exteriors and interiors. Much of this visual material is previously unpublished and is outside the canon of Victorian art and design. The V’s first Director, Henry Cole, conceived the museum’s building as a showcase for leading Victorian artists to design and decorate. This book reveals for the first time the ways in which Cole’s expressed policy to ‘assemble a splendid collection of objects representing the application of Fine Arts to manufacture’ was applied to the fabric of the building, as he engaged leading painters such as Frederic Leighton, G.F. Watts and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as specialists in decoration such as Owen Jones and Morris and Company, to decorate and design for a building raised by engineers using innovatory materials and techniques. This book represents a fascinating, untold chapter in the history of British 19th-century art, design, architecture and museums, and provides an essential key to understanding the evolution of the museum’s early collections and identity.
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The focus of this large book is an 18th century Dutch cabinet from the Rijksmuseum’s furniture collection. This cabinet houses a collection of curiosities including a mini-apothecary’s shop filled with over 300 jars, pots, and bottles containing medicines. Concealed behind the rear wall of the cabinet, 55 secret drawers reveal a varied collection of over 2,000 naturalia(...)
The collector's cabinet and miniature pharmacy
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The focus of this large book is an 18th century Dutch cabinet from the Rijksmuseum’s furniture collection. This cabinet houses a collection of curiosities including a mini-apothecary’s shop filled with over 300 jars, pots, and bottles containing medicines. Concealed behind the rear wall of the cabinet, 55 secret drawers reveal a varied collection of over 2,000 naturalia specimens – including seeds, flowers, roots, resins, ores, and a great deal more. The cabinet was probably owned by a wealthy doctor or pharmacist and its contents were intended as a curiosity, for the amusement of a select group of friends. 21st century readers will be equally impressed by this exceptional Dutch collector’s cabinet.
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This book is split into six chapters that proceed more or less chronologically. It begins by exploring the origins of the museum both as a cultural phenomenon and as a particular type of space. Central to this, as the first chapter explores, was the ‘princely collection’, that is, collections of painting and sculpture assembled by royalty and the nobility across Europe(...)
The Museum : from its origins to the 21st century
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This book is split into six chapters that proceed more or less chronologically. It begins by exploring the origins of the museum both as a cultural phenomenon and as a particular type of space. Central to this, as the first chapter explores, was the ‘princely collection’, that is, collections of painting and sculpture assembled by royalty and the nobility across Europe that began during the Renaissance and continued during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although varying both in extent and artistic focus, the motivations driving the establishing of these early collections generally derived from their creators’ desires to fashion learned and enlightened images of themselves and their courts. With some exceptions, admission to these collections was limited to the social elite and those that they were trying to impress. The idea that collections should be open to a wider social group began to emerge during the eighteenth century with the advent of the wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities. These contained not just works of art, but all manner of objects, from natural history specimens to religious or cult artefacts, and everything in between.
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''Expo 2020 Dubai : Site, themes, architecture'' is the catalog of Expo 2020 Dubai. An exploration of the Expo site, the title explores the iconic architecture and spaces, from the pavilions and programming to the public realm and beyond, with a focus on the three main themes—opportunity, mobility, sustainability. Each of the pavilions making up Expo 2020 Dubai is(...)
Expo 2020 Dubai: Site, themes, architecture
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''Expo 2020 Dubai : Site, themes, architecture'' is the catalog of Expo 2020 Dubai. An exploration of the Expo site, the title explores the iconic architecture and spaces, from the pavilions and programming to the public realm and beyond, with a focus on the three main themes—opportunity, mobility, sustainability. Each of the pavilions making up Expo 2020 Dubai is featured with a special emphasis on prominent architects such as Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, AECOM and Hopkins Architects. Essays written by a variety of contributors offer a detailed view of the ideas and meanings behind the themes and architecture at the Expo. Public spaces are explored highlighting individual features from the gardens and flora to the calligraphy-inspired benches. The catalog is both a tribute to the participants and a special memento for visitors.
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This publication accompanies the exhibition “Making the Museum Reinhard Ernst”. The exhibition’s focus is not on finished items or images, but on the work in progress – highlighting the acts of thinking, making, and construction, rather than presentation. Based on four thematic areas – Context, Form, Detail and Construction – a large number of sketches, drawings and(...)
Making the museum Reinhard Ernst : Maki and Associates
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This publication accompanies the exhibition “Making the Museum Reinhard Ernst”. The exhibition’s focus is not on finished items or images, but on the work in progress – highlighting the acts of thinking, making, and construction, rather than presentation. Based on four thematic areas – Context, Form, Detail and Construction – a large number of sketches, drawings and models by Maki and Associates as well as artefacts and video material provide insights into the complex process of creating the new building. The exhibited items presented on the four thematic quadrants at Aedes are supplemented by photos from the photographers Klaus Helbig and Frank Marburger, who have documented the making of the museum from the beginning.
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La revue annuelle du Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu (MAC's) fait peau neuve avec un nouveau numéro consacré au thème du musée et de sa critique par les artistes. Dits n° 22 offre un panorama de projets artistiques contemporains et internationaux proposant une réflexion sur la notion muséale, avec Yto Barrada, Christoph Büchel, Jacques Charlier, LaToya Ruby(...)
Dits n° 22 : musées pour cible
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La revue annuelle du Musée des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu (MAC's) fait peau neuve avec un nouveau numéro consacré au thème du musée et de sa critique par les artistes. Dits n° 22 offre un panorama de projets artistiques contemporains et internationaux proposant une réflexion sur la notion muséale, avec Yto Barrada, Christoph Büchel, Jacques Charlier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Tamar Guimarães, Jompet Kuswidananto, Wesley Meuris, Rei Naito, Ryue Nishizawa, Noah Purifoy, Dayanita Singh, Fiona Tan et Fred Wilson.
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