Creative Macau

Center for Creative Industries

What is Contemporary Art?

By José Drummond

Event Date: 6th April, 2005

Aims:

– Provide an overview of the practical elements involved in today’s making of Contemporary Arts. Participants will access a vast array of information about the media, techniques, styles, genres, contemporary issues, and cultural contexts of the art produced in various periods of the last century and its development to our days.

– Explore the artist’s point of view, from the studio to the gallery walls, from the ready made to Digital Art, from Modern Art foundations to exquisite contemporary tendencies.

– Understand the language about art and look into contemporary strategies of curators, from group shows to solo exhibitions, from Biennales to Art fairs.