Explanation of what is not immediately plain or explicit, as in suggesting what meaning is to be found in a set of data or in a visual work.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
What really interests me about this process of interpretation is how much it is motivated by what we want to see in the work as we are going back into it - this conundrum between desiring to bring the work back because of its historical importance but at the same time wanting something from it that maybe was never part of it in the first place. That maybe this relationship between art and audience that it is supposed to embody actually never happened. If we throw these very fragmetary documents together, we may come up with what we think the work is about in retrospect, and then try to bring it back conform the interpretation of today.
Buskirk, 2006
Not only the score is an interesting analogy, [between music and art, ed.] also the interpretion. The interpreters are the translators of the score, right? Somehow, I think that if you buy art or make an exhibition you also, as a curator or a director or anyone dealing with art, have to interpret - I don't mean like playing the peaces but to find a concept or to install the things. I think that notion has not been adressed very clearly in fine art. It was always there, this practice, but in music it's so beautiful that it has been given a role, a name and a practice. it's something like handwerkliche, something very simple. I think maybe in visual arts we still need to create that role, which is not saying anything about the interpretation but just stating that it exists. We sort of ignored that part [...] A museum is always challenged to take a point of view, to deal with a work. Somehow, it's also interesting that it does give a stand for that - that it doesn't say: this is the original, or the authentic, but that it says: this is my interpretation, or my way of seeing it, my view of history, even though it's from a long time ago. So it gets involved in the whole statement, not pretending that things just stay the same.
Kinoshita, Lecture 2006
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