LUCIAJURIKOVA
HOW DOES THE FUNCTION AND CONTEXT OF THE STUDIO CHANGE IMPACTED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE ARTIST IN THE GALLERY?
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by Luciajurikova 2020
An artist’s studio in an exhibition associates with complex interpretations. This essay attempts to address the aspects of process and result, dead artist and alive artist, artist and audience or context and function. Each of these aspects affects the final exhibition outcome and identifies the meaning and function of the artist’s studio in a gallery show. This paper discusses these attributes and focuses on a particular example of a living artist’s studio displayed in the Olivier Adam’s Sculpture Exhibition 2020 exhibited at Stour Space Gallery in October 2020. This paper argues that Adam’s studio displayed and built in the gallery possesses a changing function in the exhibition which affects the experience of the audience. Read more...
Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach’s article ‘The Museum of Modern Art as Late Capitalist Ritual: An Iconographic Analysis'
BY lUCIAJURIKOVA 2018
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This essay critically analyses a paragraph from Carol Duncan’s and Alan Wallach’s article ‘The Museum of Modern Art as Late Capitalist Ritual: An Iconographic Analysis’1. The focal point of this analysis examines the topic of modern museums and the visitor’s experience that was, in the essay 2, and later in ‘The Universal Survey Museum’3 by Duncan and Wallach, likened to a ritual. The essay was written in 1978 and focuses on the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), providing a unique position of the museum as an ideological instrument. My aim is not to explore MOMA’s institutional ideological status, but to examine why modern museums do not share a ceremonial status anymore. Read more...
THE USAGE OF THE CONCEPT OF A HOUSE AND A HOME IN DOLLHOUSES BY MIRIAM SHAPIRO AND KIM JONES
BY lUCIAJURIKOVA 2020
The 1970s on the West Coast in America were full of social and political turbulent events. The world social and political conditions were captured through creating new art movements, experimenting with new art media and various concepts that were responding to the tumultuous happenings in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women’s movement, the Vietnam war, the subsequent anti-war politics, civil right activism, queer movement – all these instances of political and social activism led towards a new articulation of artworks and their meanings. Read more...