The first argument is more of a practical nature and could be on its turn addressed with the following question: How does the discourse of an exhibition come about? If we leave aside commemorative exhibitions, biennials and festivals in which the curator has to respond to a previously determined umbrella theme or concept, there are basically two distinctive tendencies in curating: the exhibition as a result of a concept the curator wants to explore as part of the way she or he understands the world’s narratives and enables the coming together of artists, works and processes under a spatio-temporal context (the curator engages primarily with artists and their existing works and doesn’t normally go around commissioning new ones to prove her/his point) and the artist’s works, processes and discourses that reveal to the curator certain aesthetic and/or theoretical speculations that contain the seeds of a curatorial experience, as it’s the artist who prefigures and configures the curator’s concept, while the artist or artwork becomes the maker of meaning.Įvery exhibition is a “text” considered from a semiotic point of view, a message that has been constructed in any medium and may be typographic, oral or visual in nature. I sincerely find this an old-fashioned, unchallenging and seemingly odd assertion.
This accusation is not only sustained by practitioners outside our artistic realm, but its fiercest champions are to be found among the ranks of art critics, art historians and artists.
He graduated with honors from Mid-America Reformed Seminary in 2000.Too often I hear the complaint that curators, especially when conceiving a concept-based group show, merely use artists to illustrate the statement they’re trying to put forward. Tim Gallant is the author of several books, including the influential study on paedocommunion, Feed My Lambs, Paul’s Travail, a full-length commentary on Galatians, and The Legend of the Dagger Prince, a medievalesque fantasy novel.
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Starting before the beginning, and leading us through creation and the fall in Eden, through the stories of Abraham and Israel, the coming of the Messiah and all the way to final glory, this book offers an excellent foundation for learning the shape of biblical history and the patterns of God’s actions in rescuing weak and sinful people.
Wedding beautiful, non-technical prose to a set of epic music lyrics in the margins, Tim Gallant’s Metanarrative traces the narrative arc of the whole Bible, unpacking a story of love, truth and beauty. It is rather a coherent story about God and the path he walks with his people. The Bible is not a hodge-podge of scattered maxims and philosophical principles.
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