http://walterhopps.com/main A Brief History of Curating Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:56:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “I really believe—and, obviously, hope for—radical, or arbitrary, presentations, where cross-cultural and cross-temporal considerations are extreme, out of all the artifacts we have…in terms of people’s priorities, conventional hierarchies begin to shift some. But I mean beyond that—where special presentations can jump around in time and space, in ways we ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=76 “[Now] I see little coherence, something of a crisis. But also moments of great courage and, most importantly, an enormous general interest in art compared with when I started in the 1950s.” Pontus Hultén Of Pontus Hultén, Niki de St Phalle once said “[he has] the soul of an artist, not of ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=70 “I wanted a democratic museum. Everything authoritarian or absolutist is symmetrical. I wanted a museum that had no predetermined route. Moreover, I wanted confrontation, which does not mean having everything confront eachother in the same room. I wanted a more transparent view. For example, I see a work in a ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=63 Jean leering was born in 1934.  He died in 2005 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Among other occupations, Jean Leering was the director of the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven from 1964 to 1973. In 1968 he emerged alongside Arnold Bode as the decisive figure heading Documenta 4 in Kassel.*       *Text taken from A Brief History ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=61 “There is still a problem that has interested me for a long time. I ask myself how the artist stands in relation to the perception of the viewer. How does he forge a way for him through the work? There are artists like Matisse who virtually lead the viewer through ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=50 Franz Meyer was born in 1919 in Zurich, where he died in 2007. He directed the Berner Kunsthalle from 1955 to 1961, and then became director of the Kunstmuseum Basel from 1962 to 1980. * *Text taken from A Brief History of Curating (JRP|Ringier) http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=44 "You have to understand what the curator does to understand in part what you are looking at in an exhibition. Why does this artist have three rooms and the other have one room; why this one is on the cover of the catalogue and the other is not? You have ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=38 "It was the cushion of indifference that made things possible." -Werner Hoffmann Werner Hofmann was born in 1928 in Vienna and lives in Hamburg. He was the founding director of the Museums des 20 Jahrhunderts (MuMOK) in Vienna (1962–1969) and was subsequently director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle from 1969 to 1990.* *Quote and ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=34 Walter Zanini was born in 1925 in São Paulo and now lives in São Paulo. Zanini was director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo and curator of the 16th and 17th editions of the Bienal de São Paulo, in 1981 and 1983.* *Quote and text taken from A Brief ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=32 "One of the great opportunities that we are all figuring out is the role the Internet plays in all of this. And obviously it is clearly a whole new world. I find the whole concept of the Internet is unbelievably exciting. The fact that it exists. In a way it ... http://walterhopps.com/main/?p=27