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Forma e funzione alla prova della fotografia. Alcune riflessioni a partire da Walker Evans
2022
Abstract. The form-function relationship is a topos of culture, investigated from multiple perspectives: it is useful to understand the role that objects have played in the cultural process. The contribution analyses the photographic representation of objects and aims to highlight the characteristics of objects that emerge through photographic representation: the images by Walker Evans, presented in the portfolio Beauties of the Common Tool («Fortune Magazine», 1955), demonstrate the capacity of photography to highlight the formal and functional characteristics of tools and the role they play in the process of hominization.
La finestra e lo specchio. Alberti e la pluralità dei punti di vista
2020
Nel De pictura, paragonando la pittura prima a una finestra e poi a uno specchio, Leon Battista Alberti sottolinea l’importanza del punto di vista per la rappresentazione artistica. Nelle Intercenales, che costituiscono il contraltare giocoso del trattato, il cambiamento di punto di vista determina una diversa visione del mondo. Attraverso riferimenti testuali ad entrambe le opere, il saggio dimostra che, sia come teorico dell’arte sia come letterato, Alberti ha esaltato la «forza del vedere», il rifiuto di una visione monodirezionale e l’importanza di discernere e valutare differenti prospettive, lasciando ai posteri un insegnamento coerente di natura sia etica sia estetica. In his work De…
Morphology
2020
Phenomenology and ontology. In the Goethean project of MORPHOLOGY, some basic theoretical LINES can be seen which have not ceased to profoundly influence the further development of methodological reflection on living FORMS and their becoming, on the relationships between FORM and IMAGE, and not least on the configurations of knowledge in the light of the decisive encounter with FORM and IMAGE.
Plasticity
2023
Although the expression πλαστική τέχνη has Greek origins, the derivative term Plasticity enters European languages only in the Modern Age and it is strictly linked to the domain of art. Notably, Plasticity is the art of manipulating a ductile substance (like wax) to create a work of art or a three-dimensional preparatory model. Aesthetics was concerned with this concept mostly referring to that definition, the fulcrum of a key text of eighteenth-century reflection, the Plastik of Herder. Today this concept has again become central in the aesthetic field thanks to Catherine Malabou – a student of Derrida and one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary French debate –, in whose refle…
TIPO, FORMA, MEMORIA. BUFFON E IL PROBLEMA DELLA DÉGÉNÉRATION
2015
The concept of dégénération in Buffon plays a key role in allowing to articulate a reflection on the relationship between species and individual, in theorizing the unit of the type as hierarchical concept of higher order capable of giving an account of the reality of life in its diversification, and especially in allowing the arising of a consideration of the relationship between matter and living form that will profoundly affect the origins of modern biology as Goethe’s morphological thinking.
Type/Typology
2020
The concept of TYPE and the reference to a modality of thought characterized by a typological STYLE undoubtedly constitute characteristic elements of the morphological discourse, whether considered in its Goethean meaning, analysed starting from the many philosophical, naturalistic, poetological sources that come together in Goethe’s thought, or still because of the modern and contemporary developments that arose from the Goethean perspective in philosophy and in the natural sciences.
The power of the gift: a perspective of political aesthetics
2019
According to Aristotle (Polit. 1253a) man is a “political animal” and his aim is to live in the community. Guided by this Aristotelian premise, I would like to dwell on the relevance of a relationship among individuals as the foundation of a civil society and the building of a political space. Following the Aristotelian perspective, the relationship among people acquires a political value in reference to the Greek word polis (city). Consequently, the adjective “political” indicates an idea wider than usually acknowledged and may refer to space, objects, and overall relationships among people. According to the natural model originally advocated by Aristotle, the urban space acquires a politi…
Aesthetic Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Landscape. Appearances of the “Political”
2022
This book investigates how we are involved in politically informed structures and how they appear to us. Following different approaches in contemporary aesthetics and cultural philosophy, such as everyday aesthetics, atmosphere and aestheticization, the authors explore how embedded powers in politics, education, democracy, and landscape are analyzed through aesthetics.
Art in the streets. Artification strategies for public space
2019
My essay focuses on the notion of artification, recently emerged in the philosophical and artistic debate. Some case studies show that “public wall paintings” work as an artifying strategy of public space both at a superficial and at a deep level. As regard to the first, a mere decorative effect is produced; while the second, by launching projects which require the coordination of several professional skills and social actors, produces a more radical transformation. The latter notion of artification is more significant than the former because it better expresses the educational value of art and its ability to produce improvement not only of urban areas – made aesthetically more enjoyable – …
Artificare lo spazio urbano. Lo sguardo “altro” di Danisinni
2019
Se nella città di Palermo, come in altre città italiane e del mondo, l’incompiuto è segno di un percorso trasformativo che ha subito un arresto, nel rione palermitano di Danisinni l’incompiuto è simbolo di una dimensione esistenziale. Infatti, non solo dal punto di vista topografico, ma anche da quello economico e sociale Danisinni costituisce un mondo chiuso in sé stesso: è un villaggio dentro la città, ma al contempo è un luogo periferico e marginale, tagliato anche dai collegamenti pubblici. Tuttavia negli ultimi anni in questo quartiere sono stati avviati dei processi di riqualificazione urbana che hanno fatto ricorso alle arti da strada (murales, spettacoli teatrali e circensi). Il sag…