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the Collector:
Lost for Faith/Retained for Beauty
Curator and artist: Marc Mulders
In collaboration with Museum Catharijneconvent Utrecht
Over the past years, Marres has examined various aspects of art, such as the position of the artist, the role of the collector, the function of the museum and the position of the object. Within the long-term program on the collector, Marres now presents Lost for Faith / Retained for Beauty.
This exhibition again focuses on the role of the religious object, as earlier in the project This Is Not A Damien Hirst, where a direct comparison was drawn between the ambitions of Hirst and the role of the relic. This time, the exhibition focuses on the question whether religious objects can still have meaning for an art institute outside their anthropological, artisan or autonomous conceptual framework. Implicitly, the exhibition not only addresses the question how to deal with religious heritage, but also explores the almost forgotten discussion about art in relation to religion. At the same time, the exhibition examines the lasting desire to experience beauty and the need for ritual as part of ‘a life in and with meaning’.
For this exhibition, which was realized in collaboration with the Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, Marc Mulders selected various religious works that have been removed from their places of worship. Think, for example, of two wooden Christ Images from the 12th and 16th century or a 14th/15th-century rosette ornamentation. In the role of both curator and artist, Mulders attempts to once again place these ‘orphaned’ objects in a meaningful relationship within the historical interior of Marres.
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