Wundercamera
In something of a role reversal, new show Wundercamera makes the gallery the star of the show, presenting a series of images that celebrate the spaces usually associated with passively housing the artworks that take the limelight.
The exhibition, which opens in west London next week, will present 100 images by international photographers including Mark Dion, Karl Grimes, Vid Ingelevics, Karen Knorr, Louise Lawler and Museum Clausum (Klaus Wehner), who also curated the show.
Source: ©Matt Stuart
Matt Stuart, Tate Modern #03
The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the art of curation, exploring how different cultural venues around the world present their pieces, and how the feel of the show is shaped by the reaction of its visitors.
Source: ©Valery Katsuba
Valery Katsuba, Gymnast at the Art Academy Museum (2) St. Petersburg, 2008
As such, focus shifts from individual exhibits to the exhibition design and the space.
A highlight for us is this haunting image of partially covered Macaws by Richard Ross:
Source: ©Richard Ross
Richard Ross, Museum National D’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 1982
Ingelevics takes a rather different approach in his images, which turn the lens onto the forgotten spaces that connect various galleries within a museum:
Source: ©Vid Ingelevics
Vid Ingelevics, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen #17a Rotterdam, 2006
The Museum Clausum series, Now and Then, uses a combination of monochrome images and full-colour photographs of collections at the Sir John Soane’s Museum:
Source: ©Museum Clausum/Courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum
From the series Museum Clausum, Soane Mania, Now and Then #07
These are presented alongside Clausum’s video installation Soane Time, which looks to intimate a ‘time-warped’ CCTV link to the Lincoln’s Inn Fields museum.
Source: ©Karen Knorr
Karen Knorr, The Order of Things
Wundercamera runs from 22 November – 11 January 2014 at PM Gallery & House, Walpole Park, Mattock Lane, Ealing, London W5
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