The Artist's Eye
About
The history of exhibitions is an important part of curatorial studies and art history today. Recent developments in the field of digital humanities allow scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional methods. Can tools such as computer aided design and virtual reality help us understand artworks and their display?
Parallel to our exhibition 'Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look', Daniel F. Herrmann, our Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects is joined by Lucy Steeds, Senior Lecturer in Art at the University of Edinburgh and Kevin Lotery, Assistant Professor of Art History at Boston College, for a discussion on exhibitions at the Gallery by artists including Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Richard Hamilton.
You can see more about the Gallery’s virtual recreation of exhibitions here.
This session will be accompanied by live speech-to-text transcription supported by Stagetext.
Speakers
Daniel F. Herrmann is our Curator of Modern and Contemporary Projects. He relates our paintings to contemporary art and culture through exhibitions, displays, commissions, residencies, research, and interpretation. He curated 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Lucian Freud: New Perspectives'.
Kevin Lotery is an art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art in Europe and the Americas. His research has focused on interactions between art, architecture, and forms of technological and philosophical research. His first book, 'The Long Front of Culture: The Independent Group and Exhibition Design' (MITPress/October Books, 2020), examines the collaborative exhibition design projects of the unruly cadre of artists, architects, curators, and writers known as the Independent Group or IG in 1950s Britain.
Lucy Steeds is a writer, teacher and occasional curator. Her research centres on art in its public moment, historically and around the world, where this has challenged norms in ways that are useful to reflect on here and today (broadly understood). Lucy previously worked as an editor, teacher and research mentor at University of the Arts London (2007–22). She remains a Series Editor for the ‘Exhibition Histories’ books about contemporary art published by Afterall, in collaboration with international partners.
Re-creating exhibitions at the National Gallery
The Artist's Eye
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