90713 - LAB - Boîte à miracles

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

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

Contenuti

Form As Thought - What Can Be An Art Exhibition?

Design Studio - FS 2020

© Patrícia Barbas and Éric Lapierre for AMaC, University of Bologna

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. Each of the exhibitions will be held in the main pavilion of Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, that will reopen next April following an extensive, five-year renovation by David Chipperfield Architects. 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 Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie, 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

Testi/Bibliografia

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

Metodi didattici

Due to the restrictions imposed by the current health emergency, this teaching activity will be carried out online. The Zoom platform will be used.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

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

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

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

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Eric Loic Christian Lapierre