A Task for Poetry #3

A Task for Poetry #1
opening March 27, 20:00
Maria Barnas (poet-curator), Amalia Pica (artist) and Felix Weigand (graphic design).
open fr. sat. and sun. 13:00-15:00 and by appointment

On the project
The project consists of three exhibitions wherein a poet operates as a curator, the artistic leader of an exhibition. The poet introduced an artist for a solo exhibition and represents this artist through the work usually done by the curator and the PR employee. Therefore the poet arranges textual layers like press releases, hall texts, catalogue texts and so forth. The poet also leads the installation within the exhibition space and leads the looks of the graphic design of the exhibition PR and catalogue.

Purpose
With this project Onomatopee director Freek Lomme objectifies to unveil the poetic domain in the presentation of visual art: what exactly is poetic in the art on display, how can this be envisioned and experienced and how can one bring this out to the public? These are the questions we put forth to the selected three poets, to be realised within their guest role as curator.
Within the field of visual art presentation, museums, presentation spaces and galleries we encounter a growing tendency towards heteronomous roles: the PR employee, the curator and artists, to name a few key figures, tend to blur their roles. They all interfere in each other’s work, as everyone nowadays seems to be tolerated when interfering with another's work. And this is justified since, when art, as is often been said, really revolves around poetry then it's pure logics to envision this domain!