Ştefan Constantinescu
Artist: Ştefan Constantinescu
Curator: Johan Sjöström
Exhibition design: Alex Axinte, Cristi Borcan (studioBASAR), Dan Bălăneanu
Location: Gothenburg Museum of Art, Sweeden
Period: 21st September 2013 - 02nd February 2014
The exhibition is produced by Gothenburg Museum of Art with support from Wallenstam, Romanian Cultural Institute Stockholm, Iaspis, Anna Ahrenberg Foundation and is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Simina Neagu.
http://konstmuseum.goteborg.se
Hiroshi Sugimoto - Canton Palace Ohio, 1980
How can cinema be exhibited? We answer this question through a space generated by a repetitive series of gestures, postures, relations and protocols associated with the ’state of cinema’. Without re-making a literal cinema room inside a museum, the setting is constructed through several typological movie-watching circumstances, as a collection of ‘cinema-generating’ situations.
The exhibition space contains a series of objects that structures the movement into two functional situations: The Lobby and The Hall. The first space, The Lobby, is determined by several support elements - exhibiting walls, a billboard totem, and light spots - that accommodates the audience before the start of the three movies series.
The second space, The Hall, is developed around the relationship between the audience and the screen, exemplified by two different situations of perception - an area with rows of benches and a module of stairs - that are bordering each other in a temporary cinema hall.
