Museum



Museum

Q No 1

The museum which I visited was “Utah Museum of Fine Arts”, a museum which is the primary resource for cultural and visual arts. The museum is located in the Salt Lake City, Uthaton, along with the campus of University of Utah located close to the Rice Eccles stadium. A wide range of artistic works are displayed at the museum on rotating basis.

Q No 2

One of the special exhibits which I found immensely fascinating at the museum was the anthropology section. The anthropology collection of the museum span from the 11,500, BC, and all of them are instrumented to enable us to develop a better understanding concerning the human history of the North Western America. The collection includes almost one million objects, which included over more than three thousand historic Native American artifacts, along with a list of items which were recovered from three thousand eight hundred archaeological sites. The archaeology collection of the museum clearly emphasizes the archaeology of the intermountain West which included an investigation of over five decades in Anasazi and Fremont archaeological complexes, the whole archaeology Collection of the museum is a home to various objects of some of the driest cavern sites located in North America. The cavern sites included promontory caves, cowboys, and hogups. Many artifacts that were recovered at the Field station located at range creek are also present in this section (Utah Museum of Fine Arts).

Q No 3

The special exhibit which I viewed at the museum was the Cyprien Gaillard. The exhibition was organized by organized by Jill Dawsey, who is the chief curator and the curator of contemporary and modern art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition presented the story of the French born; Berlin based Cyprien Gaillard, who emerged as one of the major voices at the international art scene. Cyprien Gaillard worked in an extensive amount of fields or arts which includes; media, including film, video, photography, and installation. The work of Cyprien Gaillard often presented the architectural ruins of the recent past, working in the artistic traditions of Romanticism and Land Art to engage ideas of displacement, disenchantment, and decay in our contemporary landscape. During the exhibition, the museum also showcased a nine-minute, 16mm film entitled Cities of Gold and Mirrors. The movie was a five segmented, and non narrative film, raises several questions regarding the historical progress, the environmental conditions, along with the appropriation of the ancient culture (Gaillard, & Columbus, 2010).

In the movie Cities of Gold and Mirrors, Gaillard very magnificently established the parallels between the expenditure of architecture, along with the consumption of alcohol, which created a special link among the drinking rituals of spring breakers to the degradation of the modern ruin. Gaillard strongly believed in the fact that we all inherit the features of urban planning and yesterday's architecture in the structure of a hangover of historical variety. Along, with that the Smithson Effect, and Robert Smithson's influence is also apparent in Cities of Gold and ...