http://2buildings1blog.org/pulitzer/2008/10/15/old-masters-questions-and-answers/ The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis have joined together to create the Contemporary-Pulitzer blog which, for the first time, combines the perspectives of two separate institutions with differing missions within the same blog. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:49:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://2buildings1blog.org/pulitzer/2008/10/15/old-masters-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-4676 BARBARA CORTINA Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:43:13 +0000 http://2buildings1blog.org/pulitzer/2008/10/15/old-masters-questions-and-answers/#comment-4676 PS: For curious people who want to know more the website is www.querinistampalia.it enjoy! PS: For curious people who want to know more the website is
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]]> http://2buildings1blog.org/pulitzer/2008/10/15/old-masters-questions-and-answers/comment-page-1/#comment-4674 BARBARA CORTINA Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:00:15 +0000 http://2buildings1blog.org/pulitzer/2008/10/15/old-masters-questions-and-answers/#comment-4674 I am following with great interest the debate and completely agree with Director's reply that greatest and unexpected results often come from the relationship between "old" and "contemporary". I would like to give an example of this: I am an italian professional and I worked for Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice; the Foundation is a XVI century patrician house and it was in part restored by Carlo Scarpa in 1949. Today the Foundation hosts a Contemporary Art project named "Conserving the Future" that invites contemporary artists to show their works - or to create new site specific works - in relation with the particular Foundation's environment. And it is incredible to see how, everytime, past and present complete each other! Proofs like this allow us to see that the totality of relationships in which things organize themselves could also be overthrown to find out various other points of view. Leaving preconceptions out is a great challenge for great institutions. Thank you very much for hospitality and go on in this way. Barbara I am following with great interest the debate and completely agree with Director’s reply that greatest and unexpected results often come from the relationship between “old” and “contemporary”. I would like to give an example of this: I am an italian professional and I worked for Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice; the Foundation is a XVI century patrician house and it was in part restored by Carlo Scarpa in 1949.
Today the Foundation hosts a Contemporary Art project named “Conserving the Future” that invites contemporary artists to show their works – or to create new site specific works – in relation with the particular Foundation’s environment. And it is incredible to see how, everytime, past and present complete each other!
Proofs like this allow us to see that the totality of relationships in which things organize themselves could also be overthrown to find out various other points of view. Leaving preconceptions out is a great challenge for great institutions.
Thank you very much for hospitality and go on in this way.
Barbara

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