Understanding the "white cube" debate
Understanding the "white cube" debate
As collector and gallerist Charles Saatchi claims that "white cube" art spaces are dead, a senior curator deconstructs our display culture
By Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
The problem with art presentations today, both in the white cube and in old buildings, is that too often art is treated as only a physical object rather than as an experience that exists in the audience, triggered by the relation between art?s materiality and its surrounding context. This is true of all art, even that of thousands of years ago. This problem is perhaps due to the fact that we pay too much attention to our ?acquisitive? nature, rather than to our ?intellectual/poetic? soul...
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