Learning objectives
The student should learn and gain the comprehension of the most significant stages of the history of exhibition, curatorial theories in relation to the exhibit design; the student should analyze main issues of specific critical debate, too.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Contemporary art history and Contemporary architecture history
Course unit content
The course will be based on the analysis of case studies that document the history of exhibitions since the mid- XIX century till XXI century. The issues considered are: the role of the exhibit design in relation to the type of exhibition (art exhibitions, and universal exhibitions as a place of triumph of the goods), then the curatorial project and the selection and organization of 'objects'. We will try
also to reconstruct and confront the timeline of 'environments' in the history art practice, with the one of exhibit design.
Full programme
-Universal exhibitions: London 1851, Paris 1867 and 1898
- Avandgardes and exhibitions.
- Universal exhibitions during the '30s: Paris 1937 and New York 1939
- Fifties: Biennale di Venezia and Documenta Kassel
- Sixties: the new museology and the exhibitions
-When attiitudes become forms, 1969 and H. Sezeemann
-Biennale di Venezia during the seventies
-The foundation of Centre Pompidou and the new focus on the public
-'80 and '90: the debate on architectural exhibitions, from the Strada Novissima to Deconstructivism at MOMA.
Bibliography
R. Pinto, Nuove geografie artistiche. Le mostre al tempo della globalizzazione, postmedia 2012
F. Zanella, Esporsi, Scripta 2011
A. Negri, L'arte in mostra, Milano 2011
A.C. Cimoli, Musei effimeri: allestimenti di mostre in Italia, 1949-1963, Milano, Il saggiatore, 2007
S. Polano, Mostrare, Lybra immagine 1988
Allestire/exhibit design, in “Rassegna” n.10 1982
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars during which will be set the research assigned to each student by providing the basic tools for the preparation of a final report that will be part of the discussion in the final oral examination which is conclude the studies.
Assessment methods and criteria
During the course will be carried out audits of the research work assigned; final assessment will consist of the discussion of the research and assessment of the knowledge acquired through the study of the program.
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