2011年3月25日 星期五

讀書組

這是策展人從有街坊的父親過世而想到的一個策展史上頗特別的一個向先輩致敬的展覽,欲意借這活化廳的展覽機會,對這展覽作更深入的理解而發起的一個讀書組。

一些資料如下:


Image source: Harald Szeemann, Individual Methodology JRP Ringier, 2007

Harald Szeemann ’s “Grand Father: A Pioneer Like Us” (1974) took place in his Bern apartment (later to become Galerie Toni Gerber). In the exhibition he presented hairdressing equipment that belonged to his grandfather, who was a professional hairdresser and secret inventor of the perm. By displaying objects on an equal level with artworks, Szeemann pushed the boundaries of professional exhibition making, creating a model of exhibition as personal cosmology.

Excerpt from: Mind over matter. (interview with Harald Szeemann) Artforum International | Date: 11/1/1996 | Author: Obrist, Hans-Ulrich


"When clearing his place in 1971 after he had died - Etienne Szeemann, Hungarian by birth, self-taught hairdresser with his own inventions (the hair-dying comb called 'Vira') - I kept everything that reminded of my grandparents. For years, I had considered this apartment worth exhibiting, as a visualization of a history, a record of lifestyle, as an illustration of the knowledge that there is a point in every person's life at which every sign becomes self-evident ... ."
- Museum der Obessionen von/ueber/zu/mit Harald Szeemann (Berlin, 1981)
Quoted from Hans Joachim Mueller, Harald Szeemann - Exhibition Maker (Ostfildern-Ruit, 2006)

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