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On the Ideology of the Museum 1, 2011

Minneapolis Artist Exhibition Program. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN. Framed digital photographs, video, vitirine, scroll boxes, contact paper, banner print, paint, transparency film, matboard, light. Overall installation 29’ 3.5” x 45’ 4.75” x 16’ 6”. “By looking with rather than at the authority of the museum, she more clearly discerns galleries as mediators of artwork. In Untitled (On the Ideology of the Museum), Danos has photographed the wall space between two prints by Chloe Piene. It is what it is; a blank space of wall between two works of art. But to Danos, this framed piece of wall (duplicating the prints’ frames) is important for two reasons. First, the artwork asks, What about the space between the two prints? Is there logic to how curators and artists measure the space between works? Second, how does the space between works make it possible (or not) to concentrate and focus on each piece of art before moving on to the next? Is this space for our benefitor for the visitors’, or for the art’s? Not all of Danos’s works in this exhibition are based on formal semblances with the artworks in the adjacent gallery. She has also installed identical baffles and reformatted the wall text that accompanies that exhibition. She is intrigued by these physical properties of the space, and the ways in which they affect the selection of artworks and lead audiences through the space to set a tone for reading and understanding the exhibition.” Chris Atkins, Director MAEP. http://www.artsmia.org/semblances/semblances.html

 

 

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