Notes on the Gallery Space
Submitted by taycan04 on Mon, 2007-03-19 23:43.Week 4
"So powerful are the perpetual fields of force within this chamber that, once outside it, art can lapse into secular status. Conversly, things become art in a space where powerful ideas about art focus on them." p. 14
It is amazing how much power the gallery has on art and vice versa. A dumpster on the street is garbage, but when taken outside of its context and put in the white cube, it is now technically art and the context becomes the content, framing the gallery. The relationship between art and the gallery are so dependent on one another. The gallery needs art to survive. I also believe that some art needs the gallery just the same. The gallery shapes the art along with what type of people will become the viewer.
-Candice
