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A contemporary art exhibition at the library of the Musée de l'Anatomie of the University of Montpellier, co-curated by Prof Wolfgang Weileder, Newcastle University and Alistair Robinson, Director of the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland in collaboration with Caroline Girard and Veronique Bourgade, University of Montpellier. 'A Scientific Encounter: On Interobjectivity' - a collaboration between Sunderland, Newcastle and Montpellier Universities about the state of twenty-first century science, revealing some of the treasures held in University collections.Artists: Murray Ballard, Baccio Bandinelli, Irene Brown, Keith Brown, Daniel Brown, Jan Breughel, Annibale Carracci, Bettina Dittlmann, Elpida Hazdi-Vasileva, Nadia Lichtig, Rosalind McLachlan, Kelly Richardson, Richard Talbot, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Wolfgang Weileder“Art is something that seemingly lets us see the ‘impossible depth of objects’ ”.Graham Harman, (2005) Guerilla Metaphysics, Peru IK: Open Court, p105 This exhibition of international artists from Germany, France, Canada, Macedonia and the UK examines how we see the world through objects, and how objects act upon us. The show takes the anthropologist of science Bruno Latour’s idea of how objects interact and act on the world as its starting point – an idea he has labelled “interobjectivity”.The exhibition is staged in the historic buildings of Montpellier University’s original libraries, and draws on three hundred years of collecting by the institution. Montpellier was one of the first universities in the world to pioneer modern medical sciences, and this exhibition pairs eleven artists with objects from its extraordinary collections of early-modern medical artefacts, natural history collections – and European Old Master drawings. Accordingly the exhibition provides a unique chance to view seldom-seen works by some of the most celebrated artists of all time, including Breughel and Tiepolo. The result is an experiment in what anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has called “the social lives of objects”. It includes, for example, one of the very first independent drawings of landscape by Annibale Carracci, shown alongside a photorealist image of an imagined future landscape, covered with four billion computer-created crystals, sculpted digitally: one for every alternate species on the planet.Created in partnership with Montpellier University, Newcastle University, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération, and La Panacée: Centre de culture contemporaine, Montpellier. The exhibition will be accompanied by a two-day conference and series of public research seminars on Art & Science hosted by ESBAMA. The exhibition and conference will be contextualized and documented in an internationally published book, co-edited by members of the Art & Science research cluster from Newcastle and Montpellier.
Artist(s): Talbot R
Publication type: Exhibition
Publication status: Published
Year: 2017
Number of Pieces: 1
Venue: Musée de l'Anatomie, Montpellier
Location: Montpellier, France
Media of Output: Drawing
URL: http://www.umontpellier.fr/agenda/a-scientific-encounter-on-interobjectivity/
