The Studio-Museum : Paradox of the Total Experience of an Artwork
The contemporary artwork reworks and integrates several of the effects and affects produced at the intersection of two significant sites: the creative space and the gallery space, the studio and the museum. The strategy is not new; since the 19th century various artists have chosen to “museumize” their studio. Do museum constraints permit the preservation and transmission of a creative approach’s essence, its polysensorial impact? Can the conditions that prevail in the studio — the space, the light, the tactile and olfactory qualities of materials, the environment created by the works it contains — offer spectators who venture within a different experience from the one provided by a museum? A veritable encounter with an artistic vision? Four types of studio-museum (decor, gallery, storage, process) define different learning structures that plunge the visitor into a more complete apprehension of the work in situ.