90713 - LAB - Boîte à miracles (A-L)

Learning outcomes

Students acquire the main tools necessary in the field of exhibition design and integrate the project experience with historical, theoretical and critical knowledge. In particular, students acquire the skills to develop a conceptual and metaphorical project, both to translate the theoretical issues discussed during the courses and to develop a personal vision on the principles, criteria and objectives to be achieved during the various research phases. They also acquire the methodological basis for the graphic and technical representation of the exhibition project

Course contents

Course organised in collaboration with the École d'Architecture, de la Ville & de Territoire, Paris-Est

 

 Form As Thought - What Can Be An Art Exhibition? 

Éric Lapierre and Tristan Chadney, Experience, Paris

The studio “Form As Thought - What Can Be An Art Exhibition?” will consider the relationship between form and content and, beyond that, between space and art, through the case study of conceiving the design of a series of monographic art exhibitions. Students will work in groups; each group will design a specific exhibition for a specific artist with a curatorial proposal and choose which pieces to exhibit.

The first part of the studio will be a pretext to study the work of each of those artists to understand its meaning and development in the long term. During this period, will be given to the students graphic elements of exhibition space, with the aim of understanding the building’s logic. Then, it will focus on the pieces chosen by the students, the main core of the exhibition, that must have a coherent discourse from a curatorial point of view. The design of the exhibition will be created in order to reinforce the meaning and clarity of the curatorial choices made at the previous stage. For the final critic, students will show mainly an atlas of the curatorial proposal, a plan of their exhibition and a collage of an interior perspective, allowing to understand immediately the result in terms of space. Quality of the work will be evaluated upon the link between the curatorial decisions and the spatial organization that is able to improve and to allow them to be better understood by the audience, while making the better use of the specificity of the place.

All along the process, the teachers will deliver a series of short lectures which aim to frame specific issues about curatorialship and space. In the end, an exhibition of the projects will take place, showing the whole work. The exhibition will be design and produced by all the students.

Attendance of at least 70% of lessons required

Readings/Bibliography

A handout with a selection of essays and research material will be made available at the beginning of the course.

Teaching methods

Seminars, visits and lectures in class and online

The zoom platform will be used for the online lessons

Attendance of at least 70% of lessons required

Assessment methods

At the end of the course, the student will be assigned a grade based on a final discussion of the developed project.

Teaching tools

Research materials and part of the bibliography are provided to the students.

Office hours

See the website of Eric Loic Christian Lapierre