The Gallery of Lost Art – Project | Tate
I have explored to the online exhibition “The Gallery of Lost Art” today. This exhibition is mainly displaying some forgotten literary works and some disappeared art works. Due to war, fire and people’s unawareness, most of these art works are lost in the history. Each Work has its detailed artistic explanation and unique in history, and each piece of work has its detailed information for visitor to reference. The original intention of this gallery is like its name. It wants to express the theme of lost culture.
There are a total of forty missing literary art works exhibited in this art gallery. They are only copies of original art works. These exhibitions are all displayed with photographic documents of the original. This is reminding the visitors that these works have been lost. When I look on these photographs, I see every piece of work has excess paint. They are damaged, dirty and excess paint. This may also be another point to remind the theme of this gallery, these artworks are unique and its end of lost.
When I read its information and visited its works, I think there are three reasons why this gallery wants to show the missing art works. The first is to evoke people’s memory of these works, so that they will not be buried and forgotten. The second reason is to show the uniqueness of its exhibition, using digital images to show a work that cannot be exhibited. The third reason, I think it has more depth. This exhibition wants to tell people that these lost works are not just the works themselves, but also represent the loss of a piece of history and culture.
After all, this gallery represents forty art works that were lost due to various factors. It exists is wants to make these works not forgotten by people and time.