To start off with, let’s have a quote from the curator, Jennifer Mundy. ”art history tends to be the history of what has survived, but loss has shaped our sense of art’s history in ways that we are often not aware of.’ The ‘Gallery of Lost Art’ is a year-long online exhibition, curated by Tate and developed by UK creative studio ISO, of artworks which have one way or another, left the public eye; whether it be through theft, arson, discarding, or plain old rejection.
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Set up as a warehouse floor viewed from above, the various artworks are presented and interpreted by way of chalked headers and diagrams. These tell the present state of the specific work (and how it got to that point) and can be zoomed in upon to offer access to photos, essays, film footage and interviews as well as anything else which might be pertinent to the piece.
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The exhibition was initially opened with works from 20 prominent artists- among them Marcel Duchamp, Frida Kahlo and Tracey Emin- and is expected to grow by one new work each week for six months, when all is said and done, doubling the size of the exhibit. And six months after completion, the website, just as the works it tells of, will disappear.
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