De la cabinetul de curiozități la expoziția anistorică.
From the cabinet of curiosities to the ahistorical exhibition.

Meanings of the display.

Summary/Abstract: The different displays used for western art along the centuries are subject to analysis, amongst others, according to the degree of the message’s permeability and the sphere of the recipients considered when the collections were organized. The kunstkabinett type of display concealed the signification beyond the object because it reserved the access and the understanding of the collection to a close circle. The public museum and the chronological display permitted a larger reception of art. The organization of the collection according to historical and scientific criteria facilitated its viewing and understanding exceeding the subjective codification monopolized by a certain social class. The ahistorical, thematic hang, far from representing a regression to the cabinet of curiosities, widened the public’s ability to see beyond the display. Even though it was initially criticized for promoting new arbiters of taste, the relinquishing of the chronological display democratized the sphere of subjects able to determine the significance of the exhibition, because the museum dimmed the authoritarian speech in order to enable an alternative reading of art history, a bypass of the sequentiality and the setting of one’s own routs.

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