Cameras, Corn, Christopher Williams, and the Cold War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300257 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Godfrey (0000-0002-1118-5747, Mark Godfrey is a curator at Tate Modern, where he is working on exhibitions of Roni Horn and Francis Alÿs. He is the author of Abstraction and the Holocaust (Yale University Press, 2007) and of recent essays on Simon Starling, Pierre Huyghe, and Ceal Floyer. He curated “Matthew Buckingham: Play the Story” at Camden Arts Centre in London in 2007, and is currently working on a monograph on Alighiero E Boetti., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 126 |
| Pages | 115-142 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/octo.2008.126.1.115 |
| OpenAlex | W1989935483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In the summer of 2006, I was invited to be on a jury of a photographic competition at the Museu Serralves in Porto. When I arrived, I discovered that the proceedings were taking place largely in Portuguese, which somewhat challenged my participation. Thankfully, this circumstance allowed me to spend the bulk of my two days in the museum’s temporary exhibition: Christopher Williams’s For Example: Dix-Huit Lecons Sur La Societe Industrielle (Revision 4), the fourth iteration of Williams’s presentation of a series begun in 2003. Previous exhibitions had been held at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, and the Vienna Secession, and though the Serralves show contained many of the same photographs as had been displayed at these venues, it was completely different as an exhibition. I was grateful for the opportunity to spend time in Williams’s show because up until that point, though I had admired his work from afar, I had never seen a solo exhibition in the flesh. Instead I knew some catalogs and had read various essays on his work.3 Seeing the work at Serralves was an extraordinary and very
Art · Art history · Exhibition · Performance art · Portuguese · Presentation (obstetrics · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |