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Ugo Zovetti and Book Decoration. A New Acquisition for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Drawings and Prints Cabinet
2020
The essay focuses on a valuable acquisition of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini graphic art collections: a group of works by Ugo Zovetti Senior (Curzola, Dalmatia, 1879 - Milan, 1974). Ugo Zovetti was a great master of decoration and also distinguished himself in other fields, such as mural painting, advertising painting and engraving. An original, multifaceted artist, Zovetti is particularly valued for his works on paper, and especially the outstanding, highly refined decorated papers.
Yumiko Kimura. Invenzione e geometria
2016
Il saggio prende in esame la ricerca artistica di Yumiko Kimura (Tokyo, 1961), artista specializzata in sculture in vetro che coniugano arte geometrica e ricerca della luce. Il contributo è stato realizzato in occasione della mostra "Universi geometrici", che ha presentato una selezione di opere dell'artista giapponese all’interno della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento e poi alla FAM gallery con il patrocinio del Museum of Geometric and MADI Art di Dallas e l'inserimento nelle celebrazioni ufficiali del 150° anniversario delle relazioni tra Giappone e Italia. The essay examines the artistic research of Yumiko Kimura (Tokyo, 1961), an artist specializing in glass sculptures that combine geometr…
Dall'origami al digitale: Jun Sato e la geometria
2016
The essay examines the artistic research of Jun Sato (Tokyo, 1947), an artist specializing in geometric series of photographies. The contribution was made on the occasion of the exhibition "Geometric Universes", which presented a selection of works by the Japanese artist in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento and then at the FAM gallery with the patronage of the Museum of Geometric and MADI Art in Dallas and the inclusion in the official celebrations of the 150th anniversary of relations between Japan and Italy.
MADI: A Universal Art Movement
2017
The essay focuses on MADI, an artistic phenomenon of international breadth founded by Carmelo Arden Quin in Buenos Aires in 1946 that is based on the principles of no-expression, no representation, no simbolysm. The contribution focuses on the founding moments of the movement with particular reference to the figure of Joaquin Torres Garcia and Tomas Maldonado analysing the main exhibitions in Latin America and Europe. Furthermore, the text examines the artworks on display because, despite their similarities and affinities, the works of each artist in this exhibition are autonomous and carry their individual high-profile research that finds its highest completion through MADI. The exhibition…
MADI. The Other Geometry / MADI もうひとつの幾何学アート
2017
La mostra realizzata presso il rinomato 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art di Kanazawa, organizzata da in sinergia con l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Osaka e il Consolato Generale d'Italia - Osaka, rende omaggio al movimento internazionale Madi presentando una selezione di opere particolarmente significativa e raccogliendo i lavori di ventitré artisti di diverse nazionalità: Dominique Binet, Jean Branchet, Jean Charasse, Franco Cortese, Reale Franco Frangi, Joël Froment, Aldo Fulchignoni, Sakae Hasegawa, Jahildo Marinho, Yumiko Kimura, Alberto Lombardi, Gino Luggi, Enea Mancino, Vincenzo Mascia, Renato Milo, Mitsouko Mori, Gianfranco Nicolato, Antonio Perrottelli, Marta Pilone, Tors…
La pittura mediterranea di Giovanni De Simone
2019
Il contributo prende in esame per la prima volta la produzione pittorica di Giovanni De Simone in relazione alla sua originale ricerca nel campo della ceramica, suo strumento espressivo privilegiato. Il saggio indaga i nodi cruciali della formazione di De Simone in relazione al vivace milieu culturale palermitano e alla luce dell'influenza esercitata da maestri del XX secolo come Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse e Marc Chagall. The contribution examines for the first time the pictorial production of Giovanni De Simone in relation to his original research in the field of ceramics, his privileged expressive tool. The essay investigates the crucial points of De Simone's training in relation to the…
L’archivio fotografico di Antonino Leto della Galleria Beatrice
2018
Il saggio "L’archivio fotografico di Antonino Leto della Galleria Beatrice" presenta il censimento di un corpus inedito di fotografie di dipinti del noto artista siciliano e offre l’occasione per riconsiderare e ripercorrere, alla luce del dibattito storico-critico più aggiornato, le principali tappe della carriera artistica di Leto. Per Antonino Leto le potenzialità espressive del mezzo tecnologico, che sin dalla sua comparsa ha esercitato un grande fascino su diversi pittori, diventano uno strumento prezioso per la documentazione dell’opera d’arte che ben si presta all’indagine storico-artistica che consente di identificare un cospicuo gruppo di opere inedite del pittore e di individuare …
Foreign (In)Direct Investment in Chinese Contemporary Art Game: The Case Studies of Uli Sigg, Guy Ullens and beyond, 1989-2013
2021
The boom in Chinese contemporary art is the result of China’s opening to foreign investment and private entrepreneurship in 1978, and the significant contribution by the transnational art enterprises of long-term patron-investor-collectors, such as Uli Sigg and Guy Ullens, between approximately 1989 and 2013. Through the opportunity offered by the gap between the private market mechanism and national heritage process for the “art game”, these investors used a variation of the controversial “Saatchi model” to generate high ROI. A further effect has been to bring CCA onto the global stage and complete the ecosystem of the art industry, building a foundation for the art economy of post-Mao Chi…
Subjectivation, togetherness, environment. Potentials of participatory art for Art Education for Sustainable Development (AESD)
2017
Through a process-oriented analysis of the participatory art project The Hill this article explores the relevance of participatory art projects for the development of AESD – Art Education for Sustainable Development. Inspired by Felix Guattari’s Three Ecologies (2008) the analysis moves through three sub-studies delving into three different aspects of the project. Each sub-study adopts two overlapping analytical ‘lenses’: The lens of a contemporary art form (performance art, community art, and site-specific art) and the lens of a related theoretical concept (subjectivation, togetherness, environment). The aim is to propose art educational ideas and strategies that stimulate students to chal…
Nordic contemporary art education and the environment: Constructing an epistemological platform for Art Education for Sustainable Development (AESD)
2012
How can art educators address questions of environmental sustainability, accepting to be ethically normative but avoiding becoming dogmatic? How can the complex ‘pool’ of knowledge generated in and through art education research become useful in working with these questions, which many of us find overwhelmingly difficult? AESD – Art Education for Sustainable Development – is a concept coined for this article with the intention of bringing environmental problems onto the agenda. In an attempt to provoke the necessary discussion about environmental sustainability in art education, the article examines selected texts from recent Nordic research in order to build an ‘epistemological platform’ t…