This time the talking is with Kate Whyles and the main topic is talking about curatorship. The talk means to let us know more about the contemporary art industry, different choices, different path and what the audiences want from art.
During Kate shares her experience, I feel that she is a witness of contemporary art and she knows what kind of art works would attract more people to buy and the subtle differences between commercial art and pure art. That makes me think, what kind of art I want to make, if my works are more commercial, would people buy them? If people buy them, do my works still have soul? Or do my works still can convey my point, or the people who buy commercial art works even really care about the meaning behind the art works?
(Tracey Emin's tent, Sensation Exhibition 1997 London)
Listening her experiences I think there is a necessary to write a couple of sentences about the Sensation Exhibition 1997 London. Personally I feel this exhibition is a revolution of contemporary art history. It caused huge controversy to the whole art community and also the majority society. Young artists in Britain showed art works people never seen before, flash, pornographic and scary stuffs. Such as Chapman Brother's works, even now days when people see them still feel shock and sick, imagine it was in 1997. Well, does the exhibition have its value to the art world? The answer is unshakable.
Recently, few of my friends tell me same opinions about how they think about contemporary art, the thing is they don't understand and they don't know how to understand.
After the exhibition at 1997, it was 27 years been past, people still not fully accept contemporary art, but why?
As an fine art student, I do understand how art came from and still exist today. Compare to the trinational art or classic art, the art today has less functional but more individually. The art today is a special language which could speak loud and has super power. I told my friends that when you couldn't understand what's the artist showing on the works, just pick one simple thing you can understand, such as colours, materials or the process. Maybe the artist doesn't want to delivery anything serious either, maybe she/ he just wants to share the colour she likes, the emotions at the seconds. I do know art is the simplest and the most powerful language on the world.
By the end of the talk, we do know Kate doesn't do art or curator anymore, now she studies computer science. It's kind of break my heart to be honest.
A person who been through 1990s the crazies and freshest time of contemporary art is giving up art now, what I am doing here? What's the point?
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