'The Gallery of Lost Art' is a year-long online exhibition curated by the Tate and developed by UK creative studio ISO. It displays artworks that have disappeared for reasons of theft, arson, rejection or just having been discarded.
'Art history tends to be the history of what has survived,' reflects the gallery's curator Jennifer Mundy, 'but loss has shaped our sense of art’s history in ways that we are often not aware of.
'The website is visually structured as an open warehouse floor, viewed from above, with different chalk headers on the ground delineating the subject of that area of the gallery: destroyed, stolen, discarded, rejected, erased, or ephemeral. users can zoom into particular areas, and by clicking on specific projects they can access essays, photos, film footage or interviews, and other material about the artwork.'
Why the the piece of art was lost is also documented and the site will add one new work each week for six months and six months after this the website will disappear itself.
Click here to go to the site.
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