'jesper nordahl'

The last check on titles and techniques,  glass-polishing, taking photographs before the opening on Saturday February 13th. The museum curator Martin Schibli spoke about museum collections in history and today, while Daniel and I talked about the exhibition.  It is interesting to reflect on collection policies or lack of collection policies, chance and luck, the people collecting, the artists who decides to make a donation, the collection in relation to context - to the exhibitions and to all work at a museum. The criterions of choice are always to be under discussion and the whole collection to be considered from different perspectives as gender, material, years and so on.

Thinking of the Metropolitan Museum of Art with over two millions of works in their collection. Some of them in a database you can search and explore. Thinking of the future of museums when all collections are visible in the digital realm and one can make up one´s own personal collection at home on the computer. Or suggest an exhibition to a museum.

Treasures in a collection to take care of. When speaking to the museum director Sergei Muchin at Jönköpings Läns Museum he told me that silver-fishes are eating up their art works, which is another side of having a collection.

Back to the opening. After an hour Jesper Nordahl took over to tell us about the t.A.T.u. Project and his video-screening that took place one floor below.  The video is almost an hour long, cut from 30 hours of film, and we meet the Russian pop-duo t.A.T.u. and their manager – or maybe it is the Russian society and it’s political and socio-economic situation we meet?

In the installation of Daniel Hoflund fiction, history, documentation and facts meet. Give it reflection and time and you will be rewarded.

 

 

Kalmar Konstmuseum just before opening. Photo Torun Ekstrand Kalmar Konstmuseum just before opening. Photo Torun Ekstrand
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