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Simone Geraci. Echos
2019
The essay was made on the occasion of Simone Geraci's solo show at the Quam gallery in Scicli, where the artist presented a very refined selection of his most recent artistic production. Geraci, who prefers the definition of painter to that of artist, is firmly convinced of the condition of painting as a living language, not devoid of narrative implications, and as an expressive tool that is still current and capable of great fascination.
Rebuilding a cultural legacy in a New Town. Reshape physical and cultural continuity between Old and New Gibellina
2019
In one night the town of Gibellina was destroyed by the earthquake that hit the Belice Valley in January 1968. En- thusiastically embracing the urban theories/utopias that were on trend in the 1960s, with, however, excessive and in another site. The building of infrastructures, houses and services, albeit by means of goods conceived for a city meant to be a symbol of modernity, does not have be interpreted as a weay to donate life to a whole community. It was also necessary, indeed, to take into account issue like memory, the sense of belonging, the continuity of tra- ditions: it became necessary to construct a new identity. Therefore, under the visionary guidance of the mayor Ludovico Corr…
Omar Hassan, o del limite da superare
2023
Il saggio prende in esame la figura di Omar Hassan, artista classe 1987, figlio di padre egiziano e madre italiana nato e cresciuto a Milano, che rivolge il proprio interesse per il linguaggio della Street Art per poi consolidare la propria formazione all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera con Alberto Garutti. Il contributo ne inquadra la figura nel panorama dell'arte del secondo dopoguerra e dell'Action Painting con particolare riferimento alla produzione più recente e alle opere site specific realizzate ad hoc per la Sala Duca Montalto del Palazzo dei Normanni a Palermo.
ANIMA-L di Carla Sutera Sardo
2021
Il contributo prende in esame ANIMA-L, un progetto ideato da Carla Sutera Sardo nel 2020 e presentato nel contesto dell'Orto Botanico di Gibellina in occasione di Images Gibellina. Open Air and Site Specific Photo Festival. ANIMA-L declina in chiave contemporanea la relazione antichissima tra l'Uomo e la Natura. The contribution examines ANIMA-L, a project conceived by Carla Sutera Sardo in 2020 and presented in the context of the Botanical Garden of Gibellina on the occasion of Images Gibellina. Open Air and Site Specific Photo Festival. ANIMA-L interprets the ancient relationship between Man and Nature in a contemporary key.
Contemporary Art as a Learning Experience
2012
Abstract Art has changed a lot during the last fifty years. In spite of that, the role of art in schools has remained the same. The aim of this paper is to show the many different ways contemporary art offers itself as an environment for learning. An idea of contemporary art as a learning experience presented here is based on teacher's views on the matter. The analysis of the material shows that by concretizing the properties of artworks and the experience produced by them, arguments for seeing contemporary art both as a credible and a necessary environment of learning can be found.
Gibellina molteplice di Maurizio Galimberti
2021
Il saggio presenta la serie di fotografie che Maurizio Galimberti, artista di fama internazionale, dedica al tema della molteplicità attraverso la propria visione inedita della città di Gibellina, con particolare attenzione alle sue architetture e opere d'arte contemporanea. The essay presents the series of photographs that Maurizio Galimberti, an internationally renowned artist, dedicates to the theme of multiplicity through his own unprecedented vision of the city of Gibellina, with particular attention to its architecture and contemporary works of art.
Algunas consideraciones sobre el arte en México de las décadas de 1990 y 2000
2016
Titulo : “Algunas consideraciones sobre el arte en Mexico de los 1990s y 2000s” Resumen : En los ultimos 25 anos, una forma distinta de hacer, exhibir y circular arte en Mexico se incorporo a la economia global con ayuda de fondos publicos y privados. El arte en Mexico de los 1990s y 2000s abarca la transicion de una reflexion sobre las promesas rotas de la modernidad desde un punto de vista periferico, y un desafio a la hueca imagen de mexicanidad y su institucionalizacion, a lo que se conoce como “arte contemporaneo”. La liberalizacion del mercado llego de la mano con la liberalizacion de la identidad, construcciones historicas y la hibridez-pastiche mestiza de lo postmoderno, dando lugar…
Le flair en images, ou comment est donnée à voir la communication olfactive
2016
How is the action of sniffing others, which has been depreciated by good manners and aesthetic standards, represented in pictures? In unveiling the theme of social sniffing, this essay aims to track variations around the odour of the body and olfactory communication in Western visual arts. This issue implies to examine the social roles of sui generis as well as artefactual human odours, and to assess figurative arts as a means to unveil historical trends in the forms and functions of the sense of smell in our culture. The corpus of figurative works consulted, far from exhaustive, stretches from medieval and classical allegories of smell to the visual language of perfume advertisements, thro…
Gibellina: avanguardia di città cosmopolita
2021
Gibellina è città tellurica per orogenesi: rinasce dopo un drammatico terremoto e, con la sua peculiarità di città d’arte, produce un sisma che scuote le incrostazioni dell’urbanistica, facendosi avanguardia di una città aperta al mondo, ai mondi della cultura contemporanea: l’architettura, l’arte, il teatro. La sua storia si intreccia, anticipa e contiene altre storie urbanistiche siciliane, mediterranee ed europee. Per il piccolo centro rurale della Sicilia il terremoto ha segnato una netta frattura nella sua continuità storica: il sito originario è stato abbandonato e per gli abitanti superstiti è stata costruita ex novo un’altra città. Una città “altra”, aliena al contesto sociocultural…
L'inauguration du musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain de Nice en 1990
1993
The inauguration of the Nice Museum of Modem and Conteporary Art in 1990, Philippe Poirrier. On 8 April 1990, the Franco-American sculptor Annan refused to inaugurate the retrospective of his work at the new Modem and Contemporary Art Museum of Nice in company of Jacques Médecin, mayor of Nice. The reason was the mayor's complecency vis-à-vis the National Front's theses. The incident originated a local and then a national affair that in which the artists, the elected officials of the Côte d'Azur and the minister of Culture, Jack Lang, were involved. The debate clearly illustrates some of the political stakes involved in cultural policies in France.