Our monthly feature, Collection Rotation: some wonderful guest organizes a mini-exhibition from our collection works online. This month’s guest-curator is the artist Mads Lynnerup, whose work is included in the current Media Arts exhibition The Studio Sessions. Mads lived and worked in the Bay Area for several years, now he’s moved on to even more urban pastures. Thanks Mads!
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Untitled
After exploring the permanent collection of
SFMOMA both in person and virtually I became curious about the number of artworks in the collection which are “untitled.” While accumulating all of the “untitled” works from
SFMOMA’s website, which lists many of the permanent collection online, I started thinking about why so many artworks end up without a title. Some might say it’s a sign of laziness and others will say that an “untitled” artwork leaves the smallest distraction for the interpretation of it. Besides these two more obvious arguments, I did discover that there are hardly any pieces or documents in the Architecture and Design collection that are untitled, and it seems to be more common to “untitle” a photograph than any other media in the collection, which in some way seems a little backwards, given the number of photographs that a photographer deals with in his or her practice.
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