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Nostalgia Redux: The Field Revisited
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Pub Date : 2019-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/14434318.2019.1609082
Terry Smith

For those of us who discovered art in the sweeping succession of rooms on the upper floors of the State Library on Swanston Street, Melbourne, the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in its own building on St Kilda Road in August 1968 was a landmark moment. You entered Roy Grounds’ ‘art box’ in a state of considerable excitement, were amused by the water wall, then bemused by the department-store-like escalators in the foyer, to be uplifted again by a huge room with walls papered in glinting silver, divided by screens on which vividly coloured, shaped canvases hung, while the floors carried eccentrically shaped sculptural forms that spilled out into the expansive courtyard. We had arrived at The Field, the opening temporary exhibition that signalled the NGV’s commitment to contemporary art, to art made by local artists and to being – in marked contrast to its predecessor – a ‘living museum’, in the words of its director Eric Westbrook. The Field Revisited, expertly curated by Beckett Rozentals, pulls out all the stops to recreate this kind of experience, and succeeds in doing so more than might be expected in having to fit what was essentially a one big room plus outside courtyard exhibition in the St Kilda Road building into three smaller rooms and a foyer at Federation Square. The silver wallpaper and the hanging partitions remain prominent, and an effort is made to provide a similar sequencing of the display. Halfway through we arrive at a vantage point that almost entirely recreates the setting captured in a well-known black and white photograph of the original show. This is an uncanny simulation, albeit at one remove, one that is mediated by the few surviving photographs. I can attest that The Field Revisited nevertheless evoked many aspects of the original experience. Rozentals managed to retrieve all but 12 of the works that were shown in 1968, the main casualties being sculpture, notably all four works by Noel Dunn. The result is that, slowly, The Field as a storied exhibition recedes, and the individual works take over. Each retreats as a memory image, as a token of its stylistic type. It becomes instead a singularity, a specific instance of each artist’s struggle with the issues to hand, a struggle that is more or less successfully resolved. We start to see art, rather than an exhibition, which is an effect that even a recreated exhibition wants to achieve.

中文翻译:

怀旧还原:重新审视现场

对于我们这些在墨尔本斯旺斯顿街州立图书馆上层的一系列房间中发现艺术的人来说,维多利亚国家美术馆 (NGV) 于 1968 年 8 月在其位于圣基尔达路的建筑内开幕是一个里程碑式的时刻。你以一种相当兴奋的状态进入 Roy Grounds 的“艺术盒”,被水墙逗乐了,然后被门厅里像百货公司一样的自动扶梯所迷惑,又被一个巨大的房间提升了起来,墙壁上闪闪发光银色,被屏风隔开,屏风上挂着色彩鲜艳的异形画布,而地板上则是形状古怪的雕塑形式,这些形式散布到广阔的庭院中。我们来到了 The Field,这是一个临时展览,标志着 NGV 对当代艺术的承诺,当地艺术家创作的艺术作品,以及与其前身形成鲜明对比的是,用其馆长埃里克·威斯布鲁克 (Eric Westbrook) 的话来说,就是一座“活的博物馆”。由 Beckett Rozentals 精心策划的 The Field Revisited 竭尽全力重现这种体验,并且成功地做到了超出预期的成功,因为它不得不适应圣彼得堡的一个大房间和外部庭院展览。基尔达路在联邦广场建成三个较小的房间和一个门厅。银色墙纸和悬挂隔板仍然突出,并努力提供类似的展示顺序。中途我们到达了一个有利位置,几乎完全重现了原始节目的著名黑白照片中拍摄的场景。这是一个不可思议的模拟,尽管一次删除,一种由少数幸存的照片介导的。我可以证明 The Field Revisited 尽管如此唤起了原始体验的许多方面。Rozentals 设法找回了 1968 年展出的除 12 件作品之外的所有作品,主要的牺牲品是雕塑,尤其是诺埃尔·邓恩的所有四件作品。结果是,慢慢地,作为一个传奇展览的领域退去,而个人作品接管了。每一个都作为记忆图像撤退,作为其风格类型的标志。相反,它变成了一个奇点,一个每个艺术家与手头问题斗争的具体实例,一场或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。我可以证明 The Field Revisited 尽管如此唤起了原始体验的许多方面。Rozentals 设法找回了 1968 年展出的除 12 件作品之外的所有作品,主要的牺牲品是雕塑,尤其是诺埃尔·邓恩的所有四件作品。结果是,慢慢地,作为一个传奇展览的领域退去,而个人作品接管了。每一个都作为记忆图像撤退,作为其风格类型的标志。相反,它变成了一个奇点,一个每个艺术家与手头问题斗争的具体实例,一场或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。我可以证明 The Field Revisited 尽管如此唤起了原始体验的许多方面。Rozentals 设法找回了 1968 年展出的除 12 件作品之外的所有作品,主要的牺牲品是雕塑,尤其是诺埃尔·邓恩的所有四件作品。结果是,慢慢地,作为一个传奇展览的领域退去,而个人作品接管了。每一个都作为记忆图像撤退,作为其风格类型的标志。相反,它变成了一个奇点,一个每个艺术家与手头问题斗争的具体实例,一场或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。主要的牺牲品是雕塑,尤其是诺埃尔·邓恩 (Noel Dunn) 的所有四件作品。结果是,慢慢地,作为一个传奇展览的领域退去,而个人作品接管了。每一个都作为记忆图像撤退,作为其风格类型的标志。相反,它变成了一个奇点,一个每个艺术家与手头问题斗争的具体实例,一场或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。主要的牺牲品是雕塑,尤其是诺埃尔·邓恩 (Noel Dunn) 的四件作品。结果是,慢慢地,作为一个传奇展览的领域退去,而个人作品接管了。每一个都作为记忆图像撤退,作为其风格类型的标志。相反,它变成了一个奇点,每个艺术家与手头问题斗争的具体实例,或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。一场或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。一场或多或少成功解决的斗争。我们开始看到艺术,而不是展览,这是一种即使是再创作的展览也想要达到的效果。
更新日期:2019-01-02
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