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Kaunas Photo 2014

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Until August 31 – before the launch of its festival KAUNAS PHOTO – Kaunas, the second largest Lithuania city, hosts the exhibition “Museum 24/7”. Thirteen photographers give a view of the life inside the galleries and museum. From the MoMa to Musée d’Orsay, with the Hermitage, the pictures show us what is happening behind the scenes. The exhibition is on view at the Mykolas Zilinskas gallery, part of the National Museum M.K.Ciurlionis.

Karin Borghouts, Interlude.

Interlude is a visual research into exhibition spaces and museums. Can we see the museum as a metaphor for photography itself? The archive currently consists of about 100 photographs of museum interiors, exhibition spaces, interiors of new and historical buildings, made with a large format analogue camera or with a digital camera. This series focuses onto the time and the spaces between two exhibitions when the area is closed to the public. The pieces of art have been removed so that the photographed objects are taking in their places as if they were the art themselves. By the strong emphasis onto composition and balanced colors the photographs receive a strong autonomic character and turn into tableaux.
 

Nicolas Krief, Backstage. The new Clergy

It’s all about museums during the set-up of exhibitions. Although the photographer’s point of view focuses on the museum object itself, both a subject of devotion as an artwork and a precious commodity, and – more mundanely – a mere work material that will be manipulated, a delicate object endowed with volume and weight. The professionals possess the cultural precision that provides an epic dimension to their most simple gesture and attitude. The banal becomes fantastic. 
 

Jan Caga, Pigeon fleet. Museum Catering

“Pigeon fleet” is the designation for a group of seniors from the ranks of former journalists and art lovers, who do not miss exhibition openings and social or cultural museum events for the  cityfree consumption of food offered there. Members of the Pigeon fleet normally visit a number of completely unrelated events per day. They are the first to hit the offered food and what they cannot eat on site, they try to take away in bags. Organizers do their best to eliminate the presence of Pigeon Fleet by sending targeted invitations and implement incoming lustration, but all these measures are only partly successful. Almost every major city in the Czech Republic, county with more than 100 thousands population, has a small Pigeon fleet group and some pigeons lively migrate between cities across the country. They are quite easily recognizable. Even before the start of the event, they crawl around the table with refreshments. They dare to take offensive acts, such as taking the largest portion of the offered food. They drink, eat and do not hesitate to loudly criticize the quantity or quality of the food or service. The presented pictures were taken at exhibition openings in museums and galleries of the city of Brno , Czech Republic.

EXHIBITION
Museum 24/7
Until August 31, 2014
Curator: Mindaugas Kavaliauskas
Galerie Mycolas Zilinskas
Nepriklausomybės a. 12
LT-44311
Kaunas, Lithuania

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