We are at the Hunderwasser exhibition in Budapest. We paid for tickets on line, and figured that there was some sort of limiting mechanism to the number of people that could be allowed to be in the room at once. But, not so. Once inside it was obvious that the room was going to be crowded and dark. This has been the fourth exhibition I have been to in this very room in the last year. And I am seeing a horrible pattern.
It is dark. Presumably because the travelling exhibition cannot have more than a certain number of lumens on the pictures. I understand this, but I don't like it. Secondly, the room is crowded with so many people that it is difficult to see ANY of the paintings. Further, the layout or design of the 'traffic' -- the path that must be followed, or should be followed for the optimum viewing pleasure -- provides 4 hallways with dead ends. So, basically, you see the paintings down the path and then MUST TURN AROUND and walk through the on-coming traffic. Incredible.
But this is just the picture. The question is: Should one mention to the curator, or the management of the museum, that this is distracting in the least -- annoying for the most part. Do we tell them that this is NOT WORKING? Or do we just live with this type of mis-management?
Please give some advice to those who encounter this type of dilemema.
3 comments:
I agree that the 'layout of the traffic' is rather an obstacle than a path. Darkness, well I think it's inevitable in such exhibitions. However, there is another tiny but important thing which is missing.
When you enter an exhibition abroad, you are given a brossure about the exhibition (containing some photos of the art objects and a few paragraphs about the concept/artist etc.),which is a souvenir as well. When I got my ticket for Hundertwasser (after a 20-minute queuing) I also asked for the brossure. They pretended not to understand what I meant and gave a leaflet instead, which contained a selection of the past and further exhibitions. (?)
I think they should change the concept of the exhibitions and the behaviour towards visitors as well.
Am I naive...?
I agree with Ladyz. The expense of the exhibtion should include a brochure or paper guide to the exhibition. And these should be in many languages.
The behavior to visitors is 'classic ex-communism.' I have only heard horror stories about the "art nazis" (someone elses words). I have come to include them in the entertainment, but a naive visitor would be totally put off by this behavior. I watched a young Asian visitor be physically thrown out for insisting on wearing his jacket into the museum. " I have a cold" he said. Silently, the security, held him back from entering. OUCH> What kind of impression does this leave?
This morning Bob Theiss wrote to me regarding this exhibition:
As we spoke about it before there was an other issue too with the information text. The letters were glued one-by-one and the glue wasn't the best as few letters were falling down. As a curator I would be putting together a maintaining group, who handle cases like this. And at the last day the photo exhibition connected to the Hundertwasser was closed due to some technical difficulties. On the last day, when the most people want to see it...How is this possible? And of course we should speak with the curator, with the museum director, etc. because if they are professionals they will take the comments as a positive reply and learn something of it.
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