The art exhibition in contemporary times. Critical readings between the 'thematic turns' and the 'constellation scheme'

Abstract

This work aims to delineate and articulate different approaches of the exhibition that allow us to problematize the ways of showing art in contemporary. Given the magnitude of the challenge, it seeks to draw some guidelines from the intersection of Visual Studies with the theoretical-critical approaches applied to museology. A qualitative methodology is proposed that starts front the of museology of the idea (García Blanco, 1996) with the thematic turns of the global (Guasch, 2016) and the notion of constellation (Benjamin, 2005; Didi Huberman, 2008, 2011). With this articulation we seek to characterize and compare these museographic proposals that coexist in a complex weft and are contaminate each other. Although it is clear each case is pronounced in a specific way, this approximation attempts to explore the general traits of coexistence in these ways of exhibiting art and the challenges of present time, taking account both the expansion of the art system limits, as the disciplinary concerns and problems that mixed there.