ARTS: Artuklu Sanat ve Beşeri Bilimler Dergisi

Yazarlar: Necla RÜZGAR

Konular:Sanat

DOI:10.46372/arts.788623

Anahtar Kelimeler:Exhibition,Exhibition models,Harald Szeemann,Museum of obsessions,Grandfather: a pioneer like us

Özet: In 1974, Harald Szeemann exhibits a collection of various objects belonging to his grandfather, who is a hairdresser. The exhibition is called “The Museum of Obsessions” or with subhead “Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us”. This is a pioneering attempt to show a life as an exhibition. In the exhibition “Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us”, Szeemann focuses on the life of Étienne Szeemann, a successful hairdresser, wig maker and Hungarian immigrant grandfather who invented his own perm machine. With this exhibition, which can be read as “personal- ethnographic”, Szeemann examines his own family members. On the occasion of this exhibition, Szeemann presented ordinary and everyday objects belonging to this family as a work of art and proposed a contemporary art museum consisting of these objects. He presented a culturally aggressive social critique to the viewers, which simultaneously pointed to the politics of economic, class and otherness, and the policies of capitalism and socialism. The “Museum of Obsessions” is a pool of thought and a repository containing all of Szeemann’s exhibits. The purpose of this research; to make art historical references visible by examining the exhibition model applied by Harald Szeemann, one of the creators of the exhibition techniques frequently used in today’s art, in the 1970s.

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