Still at the Gate
07 Sep - 31 Oct 2014
STILL AT THE GATE
Library exhibition
7 September - 31 October 2014
Curator: Gemma Medina
The Gate Foundation was established in 1988 in Amsterdam with the aim to stimulate the communication between western and non-western art. Until its closure in 2006, the Gate Foundation had accumulated archives with documentation on more than 750 non-Dutch artists, plus a specialized library. The exhibition Still at The Gate is looking for a new approach to the Gate Foundation archive giving an overview of the Latin-American art showed or produced in the Netherlands in relation to the narratives proposed by the São Paulo Biennale 2014, curated by Van Abbemuseum director Charles Esche.
How could we re-activate the Gate archive? How is it related with the present? What conflicts were considered? How did artists deal with them?
Using the 31st Bienale Toolbox, Still at The Gate lets you dive into the Gate archive, being able to think differently, proposing re-interpretations of these projects from the present, selecting other artists and artworks to be exhibited, to emphasize art and its power of transformation. Ultimately, it is an invitation to participate in a collective exercise of imagination. Open the Gate once again, and use its archive to ask how art can help us imagine the world differently.
Library exhibition
7 September - 31 October 2014
Curator: Gemma Medina
The Gate Foundation was established in 1988 in Amsterdam with the aim to stimulate the communication between western and non-western art. Until its closure in 2006, the Gate Foundation had accumulated archives with documentation on more than 750 non-Dutch artists, plus a specialized library. The exhibition Still at The Gate is looking for a new approach to the Gate Foundation archive giving an overview of the Latin-American art showed or produced in the Netherlands in relation to the narratives proposed by the São Paulo Biennale 2014, curated by Van Abbemuseum director Charles Esche.
How could we re-activate the Gate archive? How is it related with the present? What conflicts were considered? How did artists deal with them?
Using the 31st Bienale Toolbox, Still at The Gate lets you dive into the Gate archive, being able to think differently, proposing re-interpretations of these projects from the present, selecting other artists and artworks to be exhibited, to emphasize art and its power of transformation. Ultimately, it is an invitation to participate in a collective exercise of imagination. Open the Gate once again, and use its archive to ask how art can help us imagine the world differently.