Publication details
Scénotektura: mezi scénografií a architekturou výstav
| Title in English | Scenotecture: between scenography and exhibition architecture |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The conference paper will focus on various visual-spatial approaches to the physical representation of art exhibitions in local context. After briefly outlining the specifics of the field of “exhibition scenography” as they were anchored mainly through the activities of the national enterprise Výstavnictví in the 1960s and 1970s, I also outline the gradual establishment of the field of “exhibition architecture” after 1989. Subsequently, I will focus on more or less contemporary exhibitions and their spatial solutions which might be considered as a peculiar artistic-interpretive layer oscillating between authorial gesture and utilitarian service. I am mapping such realizations especially in the case of artists who, apparently due to the lack of institutional exhibition support after 1989, took up the creation of exhibition environments themselves and – as I suggest – began to bring specific qualities to their work more or less intuitively that are close the scenographic approach in the general sense of the discipline. Finally, through such examples, it is my effort to point out the scenographic elements that are present in exhibitions even though the term “exhibition scenography” is practically no longer used for them at all. I pay attention to the general performative categories of the discipline of scenography, such as processuality and temporality, in order to demonstrate that the notion of scenography here does not represent the creation of backdrops or illusory spatial frames, but an active meaning-making structure. |