The Curator-as-function

Discourse, Montage, Composition

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.164117

Keywords:

Contemporary Art, Curatorial Studies, Institutional Critique

Abstract

The article focuses on the development of curatorship in the last decades. Acting primarily as exhibition planners, curators started dedicating themselves also to the proposal of alternative historical narratives. Accordingly, the process of installing an exhibition has incorporated some critical elements, albeit the curatorial task takes place inside the institutional space of museums and in tandem to the art market. Our purpose here is to understand this process considering it not only in relation to the capture of criticism operated by institutions, but also as an inevitable movement inside a globalized art world which is significantly affected by multiple historical perspectives. 

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Author Biography

  • Luiz Camillo Osorio, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil

    Luiz Camillo Osorio nasceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1963. É Professor-Associado e, atualmente, Diretor do Departamento de Filosofia da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), pesquisador de produtividade do CNPQ e curador do Instituto PIPA. Entre 2009 e 2015, foi Curador do Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio). Autor, entre outros, dos livros Razões da Crítica (Zahar, RJ, 2005) e Olhar à Margem (SESI-SP e Cosac&Naify, SP, 2016). 

Published

2019-12-30

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Articles

How to Cite

Osorio, L. C. (2019). The Curator-as-function: Discourse, Montage, Composition. ARS, 17(37), 29-44. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.164117