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The talk with Aida Strkljevic – Assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool.

The first section of the talk focussed on Tate Collection and how collection displays across Tate fulfil Tate's Mission.

A predominant part of this mission is to show innovative and challenging collection displays embracing different curatorial and interpretation models which are shown on the first and second floors, and occasionally the ground floor. Tate Liverpool has always had themed Collection displays and experimented with bringing in external co-curators from different walks of life, for example Wayne Hemingway and most recently Carol Anne Duffy. This model of curating displays enables different perspectives on the Collection and generates new audiences through art forms such as sculpture encouraging new ways of looking at the Collection in a more engaging way.

The second section of the talk focused on the theme of 'touched' for this year's Biennial. Touched suggests not just the idea of being emotionally affected, but also an immediate sense of proximity, action and physical contact - aspects you would not necessarily expect to encounter in a museum or art gallery. For decades, however, international artists have questioned the idea that visual art should be static, sanctified, and presented on a wall or plinth to be viewed from a distance. Most notably, the idea that the work of art is imbued with an untouchable aura to be protected from physical and emotional engagement was questioned through the emergence of challenging and sometimes rebellious artistic strategies in the 1960s. The International exhibition at Tate Liverpool makes reference to this period in art history to explore the ways in which contemporary artists continue to respond to and build upon these ideas today.

Aida Strkljevic has been Assistant Curator at Tate Liverpool since November 2009, where she has worked on Picasso: Peace and Freedom, and most recently on the Liverpool Biennial: Touched. Born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aida came to London in 1992, where she continued her education. She attended the University of St Andrew's 2002-2006, and completed her Masters in 2008 in British Modernism at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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We continue to study and research TATE Liverpool. This is very interesting subject and I realize that TATE differs from the other galleries as for example McDonalds differs from the Asian take away.

This is a joke but the structure and rules in the TATE are really like structure and rules of ... the perfect state institution. Maybe because it is founding by government money and tax payers money...and because there are national treasure inside...and because it is a world famous gallery and absolutely prestigious place to exhibit...

I wonder how the young artist from Independent Biennial manage to organize their exhibition in the derelicts buildings around Liverpool...

It is free (no rent) but what is about strong health and safety rules?

It was astonishing information about security in TATE and prices of exhibited work in TATE.

500mln dollars coasted Picasso exhibition!!! I can’t believe!

After Salvador Dali exhibition in Paris and Palma (Majorca) when I saw absolutely identical masterpieces of Dali I became sceptique and cynic about originality of exhibiting work.

 Most interesting talk in the TATE was talk with Abigail Christenson – she is Project Curator on TATE – her talk was about Roland Barthes “The Death of the Author” essay.

As said one of visitors in comment about TATE – “take off all paintings and installation from the TATE and bring people to the TAKE to do their real-social art which will be different everyday!”

We spend so many time researching TATE that I am scary about if in the end we will be told to produce big essay about TATE!

Damien Hirst butterfly painting sold for more than £2m

A 17ft-wide butterfly painting by Damien Hirst has sold at auction for more than £2 million. 

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8065282/Damien-Hirst-butterfly-painting-sold-for-more-than-2m.html 

I am speechless.

Poor butterfly…

How he managed to kill so many God creatures for his painting?

In the Walker Gallery I read explanation about old priceless masterpiece (don’t remember name of artist but I will found out) and there the butterfly have meaning as a dead human souls.

It seems butterfly became popular object in the contemporary “branded” art.

Why I gathered together so many subjects? TATE, Hirst, butterfly...

It is similarity between these entire subjects – prestigious brands.

I quiet dislike TATE for it boring permanent collection; I bored of buckets of water and toast with shovels.

I like Bluecoat Gallery more than Tate that all. There are no permanent collection there and  constantly changing exhibitions and is always something new and interesting.

Following The Age of the Marvellous exhibition, which attracted over 4,000 visitors during Frieze Art Fair last year, All Visual Arts (AVA) has announced a new show called Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures. The exhibition is a contemporary update on the theme of the Vanitas first developed in Holland and Northern Europe in the mid to late 17th century.The original Vanitas paintings were concerned with the impermanence of man and his earthly pleasures in the face of death. Symbols used included human skull, as well as books, candles, hourglasses, mirrors, flowers, insects, soap bubbles and shadows, all combined to create both a literal and abstract symbolism suggestive of the transience of life.
The new show Vanitas: The Transience of Earthly Pleasures displays original works dating back to the 17th century alongside painting and sculpture from 27 international contemporary artists.
Works include a life sized electric chair covered in butterflies and made entirely out of porcelain by artists Bertozzi and Cason.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8048942/Vanitas-The-Transience-of-Earthly-Pleasures-an-exhibition-during-the-2010-Frieze-Art-Fair.html