A művészeti világ peremén. Az 55. Biennále esete
On the Periphery of the Artworld: The Case of the 55th Venice Biennale

Summary/Abstract: The Venice Biennale is sort of a patent agency for art: if a work is exhibited at the Biennale, it is already regarded as being in the centre of the contemporary art world. In the present year the peculiarity of the Biennale consisted in the emphasis on peripheral works: outsider art was brought to the centre of the art world. The notion of outsider art is full of contradictions – it is difficult to find its place either in traditional art theory, as well as within avant-garde conceptions. This paper aims at tracing a parallel between outsider art and the readymade, it highlights the similarities and differences, and proposes a new term instead of outsider art: the “institutional ready-made”.

• Details
• Contents