Slog - Comments on The Best Art Show. Ever. (Part VI) http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_best_art_show_ever_part_vi This is the end of it. The last of the great rooms. For those just tuning in, check out the first four parts of the terrific Venetian exhibition Artempo here, here, here, here, and here. This final segment may as well be called The Apotheosis. This is the top floor of Palazzo Fortuny, a place flooded with light where the frescoes are peeling off the walls. After the proliferation of bodies and faces from all eras and styles on the first two floors, and after being drawn inside a cabinet of curiosities only to be deposited into chapel-like white-cube rooms... Copyright 2008 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:53:53 -0800 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:59:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by cunei4m Wow...this seems like an amazing show. Definitely, Martin Creed has nothing on something of this scope and caliber...but where does this lie in the realm of curator as artist? It's the work of a great curator to be able to exhibit the art in a manner which highlights the art, creates a cohesive experience, and quite often forms a larger narrative as a result. Maybe too deep for this late in the day...but a thought...

]]> cunei4m http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_best_art_show_ever_part_vi#c811514 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_best_art_show_ever_part_vi#c811514 Arts Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:01:02 -0800 Comment by writer @1 curator as artist is like critic as artist is like promoter as artist is like journalist as artist - their business is finding the fact, not in creating art. their disillusionment of this theory may be an art.

the burned painting is stunning esp. below the frame - reminds me of Bacon, a Bit.

http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon/paint_study.htm

]]> writer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_best_art_show_ever_part_vi#c811588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_best_art_show_ever_part_vi#c811588 Arts Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:59:43 -0800