Monday, December 12, 2011

LOOKING TOWARDS AN IDEAL 21st CENTURY ART MUSEUM

 ”Just Before. The Ideal Museum”
Zuzanna Janin, 2007

"Just before the winner of the competition to design the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw was announced, Zuzanna Janin travelled all over the country with her TeleviZJon project to ask artists how they would imagine the "ideal museum." Janin's para-documentary engages contemporary artists in the ongoing discussion about the museum. Made in artists' studios, the film shows the places where "it all begins," where art is made. Though an ideal museum can never exist, the question is in itself relevant and topical. By expressing their ideas and visions, artists will be able to co-operate with architects and curators in determining the shape of the future Museum of Modern Art."

What a breakthrough, a bureaucracy seeks to find someone who not only knows a few people but is interested in engaging with them to find out what they are interested in and interested in achieving. We can only hope that it is a catching idea.

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