CURATING IDEAS, CURATING ICONS: ART DISCUSSIONS & THEORY CONSTRUCTION

Using art theory as a tool for analyzing the production conditions of visually-oriented cultural behavior, Cătălin Gheorghe investigated the situational relationship between the ideas underlying an art work, the curatorial activities or critical engagement of the professionals he met in Innsbruck and the icons that illustrate the theoretical reaction to the artistic, curatorial and critical concepts perceived here. Gheorghe reworked these ideas and icons in a photographic defragmentation of the cultural codes he simulated. Derived from the shared social, political, economic and cultural everyday, ideas put forth in the practice of visual arts were reassessed from the perspective of a theoretical processing of the factitious images.