{"id":1273,"date":"2021-06-21T12:39:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:43:12","slug":"fascinating-fears-virtual-exhibition-until-10-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/2021\/06\/21\/fascinating-fears-virtual-exhibition-until-10-august-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating Fears &#8211; virtual exhibition until 10 August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/files\/2021\/06\/Fascinating-Fears-Virtual-Gallery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/files\/2021\/06\/Fascinating-Fears-Virtual-Gallery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2218\" height=\"1296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An online exhibition of art prints curated by undergraduate art history students at the University of Kent\u2019s School of Arts will take place from 10 May to\u00a010 August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/studio3gallery.itch.io\/fascinating-fears\">Fascinating Fears<\/a><\/em> (<strong>trigger warning: s<\/strong><strong>ome artworks display scenes of violence and\u00a0sexual violence; we do not recommend the exhibition to children<\/strong>), the virtual exhibition will feature works by artists such as the Old Masters Albrecht D\u00fcrer, Salvator Rosa, and Francisco Goya; modern artists like Salvador Dali and Michael Ayrton; great Japanese masters like Katsushika Hokusai;\u2028and the contemporary artists Ana Maria Pacheco, Marcelle Hanselaar, Marcus Rees Roberts, and Jake and Dinos Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition addresses four sub-themes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nightmares Creatures\u2019, which explores how monsters have personified various fears, and induce the uncanny feeling of horror<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Face of Fears\u2019, which displays the facial and bodily expression of human fears and explores the various shades of this feeling, allowing for an audience to see fear expressed in others<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Japanese horrors\u2019, exhibiting the ghosts and natural forces that have haunted Japan for centuries, becoming an essential part of its cultural folklore.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Female Fears\u2019, which explores violence against women and the fear of their sexuality in both historical and contemporary prints, allowing the viewer to reflect upon the differences provoked by gender and social inequalities and of who is afraid, and of what.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fascinating Fears<\/em> is the result of the \u2018Print Collecting and Curating\u2019 module in Art History. Introduced in 2006, this module gives students the opportunity both to curate a museum-quality exhibition of their design and to acquire prints for the Kent Print Exhibition. This is the 9<sup>th<\/sup> exhibition resulting from this course.<\/p>\n<p>For the exhibition students interviewed leading contemporary artists Marcelle Hanselaar and Marcus Rees Roberts, whose works are included, and the expert on Japanese prints Ellis Tinios, who taught a class for the module.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Ben Thomas, convenor of the module, said: \u2018Fear is a feeling we all share and understand, perhaps particularly during the current pandemic. The students have curated an exhibition that explores this fundamental human emotion, and how it has been expressed through art in different times and cultures. They have adapted brilliantly to the constraints of lockdown in devising this online exhibition.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You can follow <em>Fascinating Fears<\/em> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukc.exhibition\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An online exhibition of art prints curated by undergraduate art history students at the University of Kent\u2019s School of Arts will take place from 10 May to\u00a010 August 2021. Entitled Fascinating Fears (trigger warning: some artworks display scenes of violence and\u00a0sexual violence; we do not recommend the exhibition to children), the virtual exhibition will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/2021\/06\/21\/fascinating-fears-virtual-exhibition-until-10-august-2021\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fascinating Fears &#8211; virtual exhibition until 10 August 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1075],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/studio3gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}