exhibition that curated by modern art unit in Hong Kong Museum of Art on 2010 Jan-Feb, which I actually did a review on it in my master school project, just until now I have time, again to write down my review on this.
to be fair, it is not something new for the museum objects becomes touchable. touching art is good in the sense to breaks down the visual barriers and it is always a fresh and good way to enhance people’s sensory experience towards the art objects. but in fact, this shows fails to brings a good sensory experiences as the replica of the louvre’s sculptures are not sharing with the same texture of the original one. Though audiences are touching, but in fact they knew nothing about the original work by touching. The scale of the replica also hinders the real artistic experiences as the size of the sculptures and the context to place these sculptures are very vital to alter one’s experiences. it would be totally different if a giant sculpture was placed inside a church but rather a min one being places in exhibition gallery.
though i knew the limitation on curating a show, but still, the gimmick this show was trying to present, the touching experiences, is just not that working in fact.