Unfinished: The Art of the Incomplete

未完成:未完成的艺术

The Forum

社会与文化

2016-06-20

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We are at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York at The Met Breuer, where the exhibition "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible", is a springboard to explore the notion of things unfinished or incomplete. The concept of a work of art that is unfinished, the so called 'non finito' style, has been with us since the Renaissance. But it has taken on new meaning in modern art of the 20th and 21st Century. So how should we respond to a work which is unfinished whether it is a painting, a book, a piece of music, a film or a building? And, how does the idea of ‘unfinished’ translate into an ever-changing historical and political context? Presenter Bridget Kendall is joined by Andrea Bayer, Jayne Wrightsman, Curator in The Met’s Department of European Paintings and co-curator of "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at The Met Breuer; Negin Farsad, a celebrated stand-up comedian, actor and film-maker of Iranian heritage; Kerry James Marshall, the internationally renowned American artist whose work will be the subject of a major exhibition at The Met Breuer this October 2016; Andrew Solomon, professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University in New York, and an award-winning writer who is also president of PEN American Center. (Photo: The Met Breuer in New York. Credit: Ed Lederman)
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  • Hello and welcome to the forum with me Bridget Kendall.

  • Today we're in New York delighted to be guests at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of their newest building,

  • the Met Breuer.

  • And we're taking their exhibition entitled Unfinished Thoughts Left Visible to explore

  • that very idea,

  • the art of the incomplete.

  • Both applied to paintings and sculptures, and in broader terms.

  • The concept of a work of art that is unfinished,

  • so-called non-finito style, has been with us at least since the Renaissance.

  • But it's taken on new meaning in the 20th and 21st century.

  • So how are we to respond to a work of art which is unfinished?

  • What difference does it make when it's by design and when it's by accident?

  • And how can the idea translate into other arts like literature and performance and the context which is all around them?