On my visit to Venice I kept a particular eye out for the way in which works were displayed as this is becoming increasingly important to my work. With such a vast amount of artworks it was an ideal place to carry out some research on this and to get some ideas. I observed a huge range of inventive ways of exhibiting works.
I particularly liked this way of displaying sheets of paper (above right) in a very long display cabinet that stretched across the room. Elongating it made it into more of an architectural piece, and drew you long from image to image; to me it was just a really elegant piece of design as well. In the dark space the underlit works were also made inviting and mysterious.
Again, I was drawn to this long, elongated vitrine used by Shilpa Gupta, it shows that its very effective to use a display case that follows the shape of the work - something to bare in mind.
This image above I just found quite curious; they had managed to illuminate the picture in an oval shape, which I just thought was quite unusual. A I don't really make images all that much I never consider how they might be displayed in interesting ways, but lighting is clearly a really key device. I like how it acts as a frame in the darkness.
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