Dr Deborah Schultz delivers paper at the Association of Art Historian’s Conference

24/04/2008

Dr Deborah Schultz gave a paper on ‘Art and Place: Crossing Borders in the Work of Perejaume’ in the session on Dis-Locations: Movements and Migrations at the Association of Art Historians conference, Tate Britain, 2-4 April.

This annual conference attracts international scholars and is hosted by a different UK institution each year. Deborah’s paper addressed the questions:

- How do artists represent the locations and dis-locations of peoples and ideas?

- What happens when practices and theories move across disciplines and locations?

As a case study she focused on the work of Catalan artist Perejaume who explores the role of the artist and the nature of image-making. In a sequence of drawings from the mid-1990s, he visually demonstrated the migration of art movements across geographical and political borders.

His practice offers a new approach to landscape representation and the relation between working in the open air, the studio and the gallery space. Deborah’s paper discussed Perejaume’s representation of the dis-location and migration of art movements, and offered them as alternative visual and theoretical models.

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