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Annual theme – curated and with introduction by Ursula Frohne | Discussion with filmmaker Corinna Belz – moderated by Corinna Kühn and Berit Hummel
The film shows the unbroken attraction of the Florentine museum with the world’s most important collection of Renaissance art and the work behind the scenes as a collective endeavour, a never-ending, passionate concern to preserve centuries-old masterpieces while at the same time innovating.
Inside the Uffizi, the film opens up access to the curatorial by showing how decisions often open up and enable new perspectives on art in the form of small, inconspicuous interventions. The film accompanies museum director Eike Schmidt, who played a key role in shaping the digital transformation of the Uffizi, in conversations with artists, restorers and technical staff, as well as during the planning of an exhibition of sculptures by Antony Gormley. The complex processes behind exhibitions give an idea of how curatorial work transcends institutional, geographical and media boundaries. The works of Renaissance art on display in the Uffizi take centre stage – and their relationship to the museum public. The translation of curatorial processes into the medium of film thus creates access to a side of the most important international collection of Renaissance art that is usually hidden from visitors.
In cooperation with the University of Münster & as part of Ursula Frohne’s seminar “The exhibition – a format in transition”. Funded by the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘Zugang zu kulturellen Gütern im digitalen Wandel’ and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
The documentary film, a joint project by Corinna Belz (Gerhard Richter – Painting) and Enrique Sánchez Lansch (Rhythm Is It!), skilfully switches from the big picture to the small, from the institution to one of the many people who work there, from long shots to close-ups; it captures the courting of American art patrons as well as Schmidt’s insistence on finding the right shade of green for the wall in front of which Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” is to shine – twelve layers of paint have already been applied. (epd-film)
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