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What characteristics should a curator posses?

By laPinta

I quite like like idea of your mis-spelling, possibly to posers.

By jimmyx10

Oppsss
Thank you Jimmy
Let's ask again
What characteristics should a curator possess?

By laPinta

YuP , Curator should not be posers even if they have the official degree .

Curator should be Independent, meaning not to follow trends, not to repeat what other curators have already discovered. It is the major reason why exhibtiond are boring and generic. "Important exhibitions" When a curator emulates other curator, at the end of the day, his /her exhibition looks the same as the rest.


Curator should not be hang up on age or gender, and more in substance and importance of the work . I believe this happens because major collector's are looking for fresh out school talent and can buy the work at a more than affordable . Dirt .
The gender thing now a days happens at an unconscious level that the scale alwayss tips towards the boys side. I believe they don't mean to favour one over the other, but it happens.
Minor collector emulate big time curator and all of a sudden evryone is doing the same thing? The art world prides itself in uniqueness and yet all museums,galleries and private collector's shows the same stuff over and over?


The most interesting exhibition I have seen, are the ones in which the Curator carefully chosed fresh talent along with mid career and established artist. This kind of curatorail practice gives a fluid reading and undestanding of what its being shown and why. Don't get me wrong, I love all fresh out of school exhibitions.



Anyway, I realize my opinion its prety simplistic but I think most exhibition are simplistic. Even the ones I have been invited to participate in. I wonder what was the curator thinking off when he placed our work in the same room and wrote what he wrote in the catalogue essay? It is a great question laPinta. If I come up with more on the curatorial practices I'll write some more.



I was really intersted in seeing Documenta this summer as I undrstand the curator invited unkown artist. I have read not so good re-views but i would like to see it for myself and get to my own conclusions. I don't think I'll be able to make the trip to Kassel.



safira

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first they should see art from the artists point of view
second they should not be the servants of commercial galleries
third they should promote innovation at least occasionly
their agenda should not promote a single style, movement, clique

By snoosb0mb

Thinking about it, it could be the plural of posse, as in the cowboy movies, that would be a nicer connotation.

Didn't mean to criticize your spelling, jist playing around with chance ( I left that one of mine on purpose).

By jimmyx10

Snooze, you have said it well.
A perfect view, just a pity that there are not so many of them.

Pennie

By steelreid

pennie , good of you to say that, i've been meaning to ask you , how is oz doing with the drought now that you've had some big rains. thats an interesting place to live now that you seem to be on the front lines of GW.

By snoosb0mb

Thanks Snoose.
Actually the southern states have had good rain, which means a good ski season for the Australian Alps. But dreadful flooding in New South Wales with drownings!

Bad weather on the central NSW coast which as you may have seen on TV encouraged a large ship to surf onto the beach in Newcastle just in time for their tourist season! Took days to drag it off, fortunatly no harm done. Here in South east Qld we have had enough rain to fill all our newly installed rainwater tanks, but nothing since. The earth in the garden is like talcumpowder it is so dry.

The north has had rain since the big cyclone and they are still trying to remove mildew from walls, furniture and clothes.
I tell you it's a hard country. It's always been a hard country. This reminds me of the Western heritage and the labour it took to build this outpost in the Antipodeas.

We really are feeling the effects of GW. Good debate on the TV about the causes. Man made from one side and sun flair made on the other.
Our fresh food prices have sky rocketed, basics are more expensive than they have ever been.
Oh well, we have it pretty good compared to some. So we shouldn't complain at all. We have been spoilt.

Pennie

By steelreid

Well today there will be mostly dry spells with moist parts during the afternoon. Showery spells in the evening followed by torrential rain late at night with cloud and dark patches of mist overhead followed by misty patches

By Mr Big Face

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--Stan-Getz---Misty

By Deliverance Extra

Thanks for the forcast Mr BF. Sorry if my answer to Snoose bored you. It was off the point after all. But I would have been rude to not answer. I'll keep it brief just for you next time!! (;) Have a lovely misty day!

Pennie

By steelreid

thanks pennie , never mind about boring, interesting to hear from an eyewitness. funny how nature kicks in with a rescue in spite of our tinkering . keep us posted anytime.

By snoosb0mb

Snoos, this is not really the time or the place, but I want to offer a sincere, though belated, apology for agitating you with my dumb remark the other day.
You have your own, unique, approach, and I do appreciate that.

By flatspace

no problemo flatspace, i just like to blast away and expect others to do same.

By snoosb0mb

hi!
a curator should be able to ask questions - in all areas!
why did the artist do it this way and not that way?
how come the public likes this art work so much?
what are the ideas that the viewer is dealing with?
and so on
pedi

By pedi

A curator should be part of the zeitgeist.

By jimmyx10

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By Snappy Boogle

Curators like the critics are part of the problem. They are bottom feeders and only good for administrative work.

By jdbohdan

well someone you list something unusual/or time relevant/ but largely unseen, what to curate for example/

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