Io, mostro. Conforme/difforme misure di realtà nella pratica espositiva

Io, mostro. Conforme/difforme misure di realtà nella pratica espositiva
Antonella Huber
Mimesis Edizioni. Fuori collana
Italian
2024

An exhibition may currently be interpreted as a process that exceeds the mere presentation of works or ideas, allowing us to discover and reveal what is beyond artfully constructed scenes. Thus, not technical data, but a language used as an independent code, an authoritative critical tool to sustain and simultaneously deflate the “modern myths” challenged by today’s contradictions. This book decomposes and recomposes the roles assigned to exhibition practices in years of rapid cultural and technological transformations, analyzing the reasons, implications, and contradictions which, starting in the early 21st century, have increased their use and prevalence. The book’s considerations derive from experience rather than from theories, and its subject matter develops along a non-linear path, influenced by current necessities and by constant dialog with graduate students in the Historical-Artistic Heritage course at the University of Bologna. The result is a collection of itinerant texts, receptive to continuation and follow-up, in which the exhibition is understood as a critical expression of the time that produces it.