Art Foundations

Art foundations is an achronological exploration of how various forms of art have been produced throughout the last two centuries. It presents itself as a succession of galleries each questioning how art is made, by who, and where. 

The exploration deploys itself clockwise presenting works exemplifying how trained artists approached art from the craft angle of waving, folding, and knotting to art as an embodiment of a concept. It then focuses on the variety of approaches to representing figures and body parts which are amongst the first motives artists have played with since art is art. How do you represent someone as a body, as a social figure, and how you make your work as resembling each other as possible?

Gallery Z questions how trained artists have confiscated art and shows a selection of works produced by self-trained artists or by artists looking into the immediate and low-technique approach of street artists.

The last gallery is a brief presentation of where the art sits during the phase of its embodiment – the studio, the exhibition space, the art fair as well as the space enclosed or delimited by the artwork.

Exhibition curated by Christine Vendredi, Chief Curator.

Faig Ahmed, Osho, 2015, fine hand knotted in 100% N2 wool in 14/70 (245 knots per square inch),142×118 in. (360.7×299.7 cm), Museum purchase with funds provided by Donna J. MacMillan