CURATORIAL RESEARCH TEXTS

This article proposes that the curatorial text could be considered a prologue and attempts to verify this through a theoretical-semiotic analysis and examples. In addition, it contrasts academic and non-academic curatorial texts to establish some of the different types of writing that coexist in the field of curating. Finally, this study presents a brief analysis method for curatorial texts.

Starting in the 2000s, the first, but few, physical publications in book format on local curatorship were published. A moment in which new institutions dedicated to contemporary art and consequently new collections emerge; a framework in which the figure of the curator, although still the protagonist of controversies, is consolidated both in the institutional and independent spheres. This work analyzes the specific publications on curatorship that emerged between 2002 and 2017 in Argentina from a critical approach, and attempt to be a contribution to an appreciation of the advances in studies on curatorship at the local level.

This work explores, in a broad sense, the current situation of exhibition design in Argentina. It proposes a brief and incomplete list of aspects that are considered pending research, and some questions that aim to open the debate on the difficulties and needs of this field of study under construction related to curatorship and the history of exhibitions.

This article analyzes the work carried out by the Museum and Exhibition Studies Group (GEME), and its contribution to the writing of the history of exhibitions and curatorship in Argentina. At the same time, it includes an investigation on Cristian Segura as director of the Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Tandil between 2001 and 2002. In this way, this case analysis continues with the line opened by the GEME, and tries to become another contribution to this field of study.