la morte dell’artista
Elisa Pezza
“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.” (R. Barthes)
When the Author thins out and moves away while putting an end to his own work, a real “distancing” begins, as Brecht defines it: the spectator (and the curator) receives back the role they deserves.
Seven days, one space, seven works, one curator: these are the ingredients for an exhibition that proposes the public to focus its attention on the poetics of a single artist every day. At 18:00 every day, the curator replaces the work on display with a new one. In this way, viewers are invited to share the curator’s experience and observe day by day how the space organically changes throughout the duration of the exhibition, showing itself vulnerable to the curator’s touch.
It is an action that reflects on curatorial practice and how it claims its position by establishing itself as an artistic practice. As the craftsman creates with wood, the curator in a sense operates the same practice; being a creator himself: he creates and modifies the exhibition space through the artist’s legacy initiating a dynamic process in continuous change.
