What's Up With Curating Frank Gehry?
Well Sorry Toronto,
I gave up on trying to Catch the Frank Gehry show at AGO,
but to tell the truth I didn't realize that it was only
the couple recent projects that were the subject of the show.
I agree with the bad mouths that say that, though a Frank Gehry
will always surprise if you meet one around the corner,
he's been making the same building conceptually since a while.
What I don't understand about Gehry's recent "flow" of exhibits,
at least the ones I heard about, is how hazardly they are being organized.
The Montreal CCA had announced a huge Gehry retrospective some years back,
and suddenly, no one ever heard a word about it anymore.
Than I saw a magnificent exhibit of every Gehry museums as models
and photographs a couple years ago at Corcoran gallery in Washington:
that must have contained double the actual number of models than what is
being announced for the present AGO exhibit (yes, it HAD the Bilbao), and in my opinion, a totally pertinent reunion considering the architect-as-sculptor approach of this artist. Yet, there was no publications for this exhibit, which seemed sort of ackward. At least I had an impression that this exhibit deserved one.
Now at the University Of Toronto there is another exhibit
that seems like the direct follow-up to the Corcoran one.
All Gehry museums, but this time in drawings and sketches (no models
or photographs when the Corcoran had very little drawings if any).
Again, there is no book or catalog, barely even an image on the
University Of To's website, but... I wonder why not simply have enhanced
the Corcoran exhibit with the drawings, and put THAT at the Ago?
I wonder if it's Frank Gehry himself that controls what he shows and where,
since so much has been done to publish and show materials about
his recent architectural output (the Corcoran museum was also publicizing
a Gehry facade makeover, just like with the Ago), but not much have come
out of serious relectures or recollections of past achievments, from times
when Gehry's art was actually still a statement more than it is a fashion brand.
What's the point of showing Gehry's work since the 1990's if we can never
get a glimpse of how that evolved from the 1970's through the 1980's?
Cheers,
Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com
(ps: I should write soon about stuff Ive seen but I say that all the time, then never find the time, then...well comes what may)
I gave up on trying to Catch the Frank Gehry show at AGO,
but to tell the truth I didn't realize that it was only
the couple recent projects that were the subject of the show.
I agree with the bad mouths that say that, though a Frank Gehry
will always surprise if you meet one around the corner,
he's been making the same building conceptually since a while.
What I don't understand about Gehry's recent "flow" of exhibits,
at least the ones I heard about, is how hazardly they are being organized.
The Montreal CCA had announced a huge Gehry retrospective some years back,
and suddenly, no one ever heard a word about it anymore.
Than I saw a magnificent exhibit of every Gehry museums as models
and photographs a couple years ago at Corcoran gallery in Washington:
that must have contained double the actual number of models than what is
being announced for the present AGO exhibit (yes, it HAD the Bilbao), and in my opinion, a totally pertinent reunion considering the architect-as-sculptor approach of this artist. Yet, there was no publications for this exhibit, which seemed sort of ackward. At least I had an impression that this exhibit deserved one.
Now at the University Of Toronto there is another exhibit
that seems like the direct follow-up to the Corcoran one.
All Gehry museums, but this time in drawings and sketches (no models
or photographs when the Corcoran had very little drawings if any).
Again, there is no book or catalog, barely even an image on the
University Of To's website, but... I wonder why not simply have enhanced
the Corcoran exhibit with the drawings, and put THAT at the Ago?
I wonder if it's Frank Gehry himself that controls what he shows and where,
since so much has been done to publish and show materials about
his recent architectural output (the Corcoran museum was also publicizing
a Gehry facade makeover, just like with the Ago), but not much have come
out of serious relectures or recollections of past achievments, from times
when Gehry's art was actually still a statement more than it is a fashion brand.
What's the point of showing Gehry's work since the 1990's if we can never
get a glimpse of how that evolved from the 1970's through the 1980's?
Cheers,
Cedric Caspesyan
centiment@hotmail.com
(ps: I should write soon about stuff Ive seen but I say that all the time, then never find the time, then...well comes what may)
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