Tate Modern through the visitors’ eyes

September 28, 2015January 15, 2016stomouseio Leave a comment

This video is made using some of the photos visitors of the Tate Modern have posted on instagram in the last month (hashtag #tatemodern).

It is the gallery through their eyes. What they decide to capture and what catches more their attention. How is their experience depicted in their photographs?

Most of the pictures shared on social media show some of the art shown at the Tate Modern. A lot of them include a visitor gazing at the art. Most of them show the person from the back. It feels that if the art is not being seen by someone is less its worth. It is quite interesting how the presence of a human being in front of a painting or an installation makes someone more willing to take a picture of it. It gives the impression that the purpose of the art is being fulfilled at that very moment.

What is more, a great number of pictures are taken at the café of the museum showing the coffee in front of the great view.
The architecture of the gallery also, is an element captured not only the inside of it, but the outside as well.

What should be said for sure is that the vast number of the pictures taken at the Tate Modern give the impression that people try to be more artistic and innovative while taking them. The place surely inspires them and challenges them to take pictures in a more artistic way, than they would normally do.

Enjoy the Tate Modern through the eyes of its visitors and prepare your own visit or re-visit soon.

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The Acropolis Museum through the eyes of its visitors.

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This video is made using the photos visitors of the Acropolis Museum have posted on instagram in the last month. It is the museum through their eyes. What they decide to capture and what catches more their attention.

As you may see, the Caryatides are mostly depicted in these pictures and seems that the visitors are hugely interested in them.
The head of a statue that seems to have tears also catches the attention and inspires many visitors both male and female as well as an offering to Asclepius (early version of a tama!). Dedicated by Praxias after his wife’s eyes were cured.
The architecture of the museum, both in the exterior and the interior is a great inspiration, as well as the café and the restaurant of the museum.

#StoMouseio has launched a Youtube Channel. There you will be able to find videos of museums through the eyes of their visitors.

After all, it is the visitors and their experience that matter the most (or should matter the most).

Enjoy the very first video about the Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece through the eyes of its visitors and prepare your own visit or re-visit soon.

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Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam || Exhibition: Momo Okabe ~ Bible and Dildo || until 01.11.2015

September 22, 2015October 30, 2015stomouseio 1 Comment

Foam proudly presents Bible and Dildo, an exhibition of the work of Momo Okabe (Tokyo, 1981). Okabe was chosen by an international jury as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2015. She won the prize for her two remarkable projects about Japanese society and her intimate relationships with two transgender lovers, whom she followed during their processes of transition.

Bible and Dildo revolves around the struggles of Momo Okabe’s lovers and friends, who are outsiders in Japanese society. Experiencing Japanese society as overly systematic, constantly imposing its restrictive views on every aspect of their lives, they are severely impacted by this environment. The people captured in the photographs in these two series suffer from consequences stemming from drug overdoses or the difficulties of achieving acceptance in society. Bible and Dildo portray their complicated and courageous lives in this harsh environment.

Along with nude images, Bible and Dildo also includes photographs of chaos and destruction. For example, the Bible series includes pictures taken in Miyagi after the Fukushima earthquake struck Japan in 2011. These photographs are shown alongside the documented struggles of Okabe’s lovers and friends. For Okabe, destruction and devastating feelings are related. She avoids making photographs in a conceptual way, instead always aiming to make work about her actual experiences, and her feelings of loss and sadness.

At first, both Bible and Dildo appear to be primarily documentary photography. Dildo begins with images of Okabe’s relationship with Kaori, a woman with gender dysphoria. After her break-up with Kaori, Okabe followed the relationship with her new lover, Yoko, which eventually resulted in documenting Yoko’s trip to Thailand for sex reassignment surgery, during which Yoko’s uterus was removed. The series title, Dildo, refers to how, for some transgender people, a dildo can represent a body part transgender people may or may not ever actually have. In addition, the Bible series comprises a selection of images that, for Okabe, functions as a very final and definitive body of work, as reflected in the title.

However, beyond their documentary aspect, these photographs depict universal stories of sex and death for Okabe. She blends tenderness with a raw intimacy, which becomes visible through her specific use of color, the diversity of her topics and the sensitive manner in which she addresses the important and complex social issue of transsexuality. Working within a wider context of the internationally very highly regarded Japanese photographic tradition, Okabe creates an aesthetic that is uniquely her own.

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam || Exhibition: Momo Okabe ~ Bible and Dildo || until 25.10.2015

FOAM PAUL HUF AWARD
The Foam Paul Huf Award, which is awarded annually to talented international photographers under the age of 35, includes a cash prize of €20,000 and an exhibition at Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam. The jury has chosen Momo Okabe as the winner out of 100 nominees from 26 countries. Previous winners include Taryn Simon (2007), Alex Prager (2012) and Daniel Gordon (2014).

The Foam Paul Huf Award and this exhibition are made possible by JTI. The prints in the exhibition are produced by Kleurgamma.

Foam is sponsored by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Delta Lloyd, Gemeente Amsterdam, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

Source: FOAM

Pera Museum || Exhibition: Images of Our Time || until 01.11.2015

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Works from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo

Since its foundation, Pera Museum has supported young artists and contemporary art through collaborations with many universities and art institutions both in Turkey and abroad. Now, in its tenth year, Pera Museum is hosting young artists from Bosnia Herzegovina. With the collaboration of Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts and the support of IKASD, this exhibition brings together works in various media created by undergraduate and graduate students, as well as graduates of the six faculties of the academy, including paintings, sculptures, prints, and graphic and product design. Curated by Professor Aida Abadžić Hodžić from the Faculty of Philosophy of Sarajevo University, the exhibition surveys contemporary art in Bosnia Herzegovina and offers comments and reflections by its young artists on the history and social issues of the country.

Pera Museum || Exhibition: Images of Our Time || until 01.11.2015

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The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao || Exhibition: Jeff Koons: A Retrospective || until 27.09.2015

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This retrospective examines the unique, unmistakable, and innovative work of Jeff Koons, one of the most prominent figures of the art of our time. Lacking the aura of inaccessibility that surrounds other contemporary works of art, Koons’s instantly recognizable creations appeal to the general public and draw on countless art-historical sources, including Surrealism, Pop art, and Dada. Koons has a unique style that allows seemingly contradictory concepts to coexist harmoniously in his work. His oeuvre is a statement of self-affirmation, his paintings and sculptures invite us to reassert our individuality and flout certain taboos and conventions that box us in, limiting our role in society. Koons uses art as a wake-up call, a driving force of social change. The false luxury of some of his pieces, achieved by using industrial materials made to look deceptively lavish, and his references to well-known archetypes make viewers feel comfortable with their own cultural history.

Jeff Koons, Ballon dog (Magenta), 1994–2000. Mirror-polished stainless steel with transparent color coating, 307.3 x 363.2 x 114.3 cm. One of five unique versions. Collection Pinault © Jeff Koons

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The Museum Of Modern Art‎, MoMA || Exhibition: Picasso Sculpture || from 14.09.2015 until 07.02.2016

September 10, 2015stomouseio 1 Comment

Picasso Sculpture is a sweeping survey of Pablo Picasso’s innovative and influential work in three dimensions. This will be the first such museum exhibition in the United States in nearly half a century.

Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture wholeheartedly, if episodically, using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike painting, in which he was formally trained and through which he made his living, sculpture occupied a uniquely personal and experimental status for Picasso. He approached the medium with the freedom of a self-taught artist, ready to break all the rules. This attitude led him to develop a deep fondness for his sculptures, to which the many photographs of his studios and homes bear witness. Treating them almost as members of his household, he cherished the sculptures’ company and enjoyed re-creating them in a variety of materials and situations. Picasso kept the majority in his private possession during his lifetime. It was only in 1966, through the large Paris retrospective Hommage à Picasso, that the public became fully aware of this side of his work. Following that exhibition, in 1967 The Museum of Modern Art organized The Sculpture of Picasso, which until now was the first and only exhibition on this continent to display a large number of the artist’s sculptures.

Picasso Sculpture focuses on the artist’s lifelong work with sculpture, with a particular focus on his use of materials and processes. The exhibition, which features more than 100 sculptures, complemented by selected works on paper and photographs, aims to advance the understanding of what sculpture was for Picasso, and of how he revolutionized its history through a lifelong commitment to constant reinvention. The exhibition is organized in chapters corresponding to the distinct periods during which Picasso devoted himself to sculpture, each time exploring with fresh intensity the modern possibilities of this ancient art form.

Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso – Paris. Organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and Anne Umland, The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art; with Virginie Perdrisot, Curator of Sculptures and Ceramics at the Musée national Picasso – Paris.

The exhibition at MoMA is made possible by Hyundai Card.

Major support is provided by Monique M. Schoen Warshaw, Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis, Robert Menschel and Janet Wallach, and Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III.

Generous funding is provided by Judy and John M. Angelo and by Cornelia T. Bailey.

Additional support is provided by the MoMA Annual Exhibition Fund with major contributions from Alice and Tom Tisch, The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Glenn and Eva Dubin, Blavatnik Family Foundation, The Donald R. Mullen Family Foundation, Inc., The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, Mimi and Peter Haas Fund, Franz Wassmer, Karen and Gary Winnick, and from Susan and Leonard Feinstein Foundation.

This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Support for the publication is provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art and by the Jo Carole Lauder Publications Fund of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

Education programs for this exhibition are made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.

MoMA Audio+ is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Source: MoMA

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Bull. Cannes, c. 1958. Plywood, tree branch, nails, and screws, 46 1/8 x 56 3/4 x 4 1/8″ (117.2 x 144.1 x 10.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Jacqueline Picasso in honor of the Museum’s continuous commitment to Pablo Picasso’s art. © 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

The Museum Of Modern Art‎, MoMA || Exhibition: Picasso Sculpture || from 14.09.2015 until 07.02.2016

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Benaki Museum, Athens || Exhibition: Tony Cragg || from 10.09.2015 until 08.11.2015

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Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. He began his education by focusing on technical studies that led him to work in a biochemistry laboratory before embarking on his art studies. He was awarded his M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London in 1977. He has resided in Wuppertal, Germany since 1979, and teaches at Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts. Cragg’s innovative use of urban and industrial detritus opened up a new territory for sculpture at the same time as dealing with environmental and social concerns in post-industrial Britain. Cragg represented Britain at the XLIII Venice Biennale in 1988 and was awarded the Turner Prize the same year.

In his recent works Cragg has been pushing towards a new abstracted understanding of the figure. For the last years, he has been playing with the notion of compression and expansion in the use of totemic structures where the appearance of the human profile is often a reclusive aspect of the overall structure. He has also taken the figure in an almost futuristic manner and divided it into quadrants at its very core. For example, an abstracted idea of a portrait suddenly becomes four different surfaces creating four types of images all joined at the back by an imaginary spine. He uses a composite structure created from slices of wood, epoxied together in forms that are curved, jagged, sturdy yet rigorous. For his bronzes and stainless steel he has developed a method for casting forms that appear to be liquid or molten. In recent years, he has made mainly sculptures of wood, bronze, stone and mirror-finished stainless steel. The patina of the bronzes ranges from black and brown to yellow and red.

Tony Cragg has also produced a considerable œuvre of drawings and watercolours. The drawings serve him not only to explore new forms, but far beyond that, as a way of realising on paper sculptures which could not be realised with regard to statics and gravity.

Photo © Tony Cragg – Courtesy of Galerie Thaddaeus

Benaki Museum, Athens || Exhibition: Tony Cragg || from 10.09.2015 until 08.11.2015

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The Foundling Museum || Exhibition: The Fallen Woman || from 25.09.2015 until 03.01.2016

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This major exhibition focuses on the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ in Victorian Britain.

In an age when sexual innocence was highly valued and sex for a respectable woman was deemed appropriate only within marriage, the loss of chastity for an unwed woman had multiple repercussions. The figure of the ‘fallen’ woman was popularly portrayed in art, literature and the media as Victorian moralists warned against the consequences of losing one’s virtue.

This exhibition draws together the work of artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Richard Redgrave, George Frederic Watts and Thomas Faed, who considered the subject of the fallen woman in their work and helped propel the myth. In addition, newspaper illustrations and stereoscopes demonstrate how depictions of the fallen woman in popular culture also helped define a woman’s role and limitations within society.

The exhibition also explores the written petitions of women applying to the Foundling Hospital at the time. During the early nineteenth century, London’s Foundling Hospital changed its admission process to focus on restoring respectability to the mother. Only the petitions of previously respectable women bearing their first illegitimate child were considered. A specially-commissioned sound installation by musician and composer Steve Lewinson offers a new and engaging interpretation of the Hospital’s archive and brings the women’s voices to life.

The Fallen Woman is curated by Professor Lynda Nead in collaboration with the Foundling Museum’s curatorial team.

The exhibition is also generously supported by The London Community Foundation and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, The Idlewild Trust and The Fallen Woman Exhibition Supporters’ Circle.

The Foundling Museum || Exhibition: The Fallen Woman || from 25.09.2015 until 03.01.2016 poster

Museon, The Hague || Exhibition: Dino Jaws – eat or be eaten || until 06.09.2015

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What did dinosaurs eat – and how do we know? Visitors are thrust into the world of dinosaur dining habits in this roaring spectacle of an exhibition. From the infamous flesh-eating T.rex to the plant munching Edmontosaurus , different dinosaurs ate different foods and often had unique ways of catching their dinner.

Life-size animatronic dinosaur heads, including the terrifying T.rex, show how the teeth and jaws move together to tear, grind and chew food. One half of their heads is open to reveal the bones at work inside, enabling visitors to get a close up look.

Exhibition content also incorporates intriguing fossil evidence, fun hands-on exhibits and fascinating scientific insights – revealing everything scientists now know about what and how dinosaurs ate.

Visitors can dig for virtual fossil evidence to discover what Baryonyx ate, plunge their hands into a huge poo to find traces of what Euoplocephalus munches on and…

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German Historical Museum & Schwules Museum* || Exhibition: “Homosexuality_ies” ||until 01.12.2015

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The Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Schwules Museum* present the exhibition “Homosexuality_ies” from 26 June to 1 December 2015, jointly funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Cultural Foundation of the German Laender. Covering a total area of 1600 square meters, “Homosexuality_ies” documents 150 years of the history, politics and culture of homosexual women and men in Germany. The exhibition shows how same-sex sexuality and non-conformist gender identities have been criminalized through legislation, pathologized in medicine and excluded from society. It traces the legislative development of Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which made “homosexual acts” punishable by law. Paragraph 175 took effect in 1872, underwent massive harshening in the Nazi era and was retained thereafter, being definitively voided in 1994. In addition to social repression, the exhibition also addresses the liberation movements of gay men and lesbian women, movements which took on a new dynamic after the legal liberalization in the 1960ies and transformed society‘s understanding of sex and gender identity.

Works by international artists such as Monica Bonvicini, Louise Bourgeois, Heather Cassils, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Nicole Eisenman, Lotte Laserstein, Lee Lozano, Jeanne Mammen, Zanele Muholi, Henrik Olesen and Andy Warhol comment on the exhibition‘s themes in a variety of ways.

The section of the exhibition on view at the Deutsches Historisches Museum focuses on historical developments in the fields of society, politics, art, law and science since the “discovery” of homosexuality in the mid-19th century. The section of the exhibition on view at the Schwules Museum* consists of contemporary artworks and addresses the present and future of gender codes and sexualities.

German Historical Museum & Schwules Museum* || Exhibition: “Homosexuality_ies” ||until 01.12.2015

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The Museums' Project

Month: September 2015

Tate Modern through the visitors’ eyes

The Acropolis Museum through the eyes of its visitors.

Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam || Exhibition: Momo Okabe ~ Bible and Dildo || until 01.11.2015

Pera Museum || Exhibition: Images of Our Time || until 01.11.2015

Works from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo

The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao || Exhibition: Jeff Koons: A Retrospective || until 27.09.2015

The Museum Of Modern Art‎, MoMA || Exhibition: Picasso Sculpture || from 14.09.2015 until 07.02.2016

Benaki Museum, Athens || Exhibition: Tony Cragg || from 10.09.2015 until 08.11.2015

The Foundling Museum || Exhibition: The Fallen Woman || from 25.09.2015 until 03.01.2016

This major exhibition focuses on the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ in Victorian Britain.

Museon, The Hague || Exhibition: Dino Jaws – eat or be eaten || until 06.09.2015

German Historical Museum & Schwules Museum* || Exhibition: “Homosexuality_ies” ||until 01.12.2015

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