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Project Website: http://slought.org/content/11232/
Slought Foundation, a non-profit organization rethinking contemporary art, presents "The Other Epistemology," an exhibition from November 20, 2004-January 31, 2005.
“The Other Epistemology” revisits work by a select group of international artists from the 1960s and 1970s whose works, neglected in contemporary criticism and resisting celebrity status, explored epistemological issues. An awareness of these artists and their inventive works broadens our understanding of art as a form of knowledge, and serves as a model with theoretical overview for an anthology or more comprehensive exhibition to follow.
"We cannot bring Velazquez to West Philadelphia, but we can bring the essence and the spirit of Velazquez to West Philadelphia, without the body and without exorbitant cost. In this sense, the implications of reproductions for improving education and the pursuit of knowledge are significant. How can we make art that approaches 'the people'? Perhaps it is less a question of form and subject matter, and more a question of devising innovative techniques for distribution and pedagogy." -- Osvaldo Romberg
This exhibition is organized by Osvaldo Romberg, Senior Curator at Slought Foundation and Director of Didacticon: The Museum of Reproductions. Conceived in January 2004, The Museum provides an alternative framework for engaging art and resists the iconographic and market-driven aura of current curatorial and institutional practices. The Museum exclusively exhibits touring reproductions of artworks with an emphasis on the conceptual and didactic role of art. To contact the Museum concerning this touring exhibition, or other matters, contact Osvaldo Romberg at Slought Foundation
A brochure with essays by Osvaldo Romberg and Aaron Levy will also accompany this exhibition. Artists in this exhibition include Luis Benedit, Braco Dimitrijevic, Benni Efrat, Nahum Tevet, Klaus Rinke, and Giorgio Griffa, and represent countries including Argentina, the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Israel and Germany.
Please note: The free opening for the Museum of Reproductions at Slought Foundation on Saturday, November 20, 2004 coincides with the opening of the new Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA), which recently underwent a $858,000,000 US expansion and raised its entrance fee for the public to $20.00. The opening location for the Museum's contemporary art Projects series--considered the most vital signs of the museum's interest in contemporary art and design--is the subterranean carpeted and low-ceilinged lower-level lobby of the Titus Auditorium in the museum's original 1939 building, designed by Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durrell Stone, rather than Yoshio Taniguchi's addition. "The series", writes Roberta Smith in The New York Times, "will continue peripatetically and nomadically without the benefit, or maybe the pressure, of a dedicated gallery space." (11/19/2004) -- Aaron Levy
Read the full curatorial essay by Osvaldo Romberg
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