Monday, 17 December 2007

* Centre Pompidou collection in Lisbon

The exhibition „Centre Pompidou novos Media” in Lisbon will be on exhibition until January in the “Museu do Chiado”. You will find 23 pieces from 19 artists from all over the world. It is a display about the story of television and it is split into four themes: “For an imaginary television”, “Search for identity”, “From monitor to installation” and “After-cinema”. You should expect a big exhibition because of all the international artists like Stan Douglas, Valie Export, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman or Pierre Huyghe but it will be over in 45 minutes. It is a small exhibition but a very entertaining and interesting one.
However, it is a precondition for everyone to inform themselves before visiting this exhibition, so that it will be quite easier to interpret every single piece. Indeed it is really worth seeing because of all the curious pieces and techniques like the figures from Tony Oursler, which have real faces beamed onto them and so look not only amazing but also real. The project “The third Memory” form Pièrre Huyghe, where he combines live TV footage of the original robbery with excerpts from the film „A dog day afternoon“ is also a wonderful example.
It is a great exhibition in general but particularly for those who study the science of media.

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