2013 Programme
EVENT #8
Cristina Baldacci, Andrea Pinotti
Archives in art: a new contemporary genre?
Call it an “archival drive”, call it “archive mania”: the individual and collective need to accumulate, collect, classify things in an order, with the goal of preserving and handing down memories and knowledge or to make room for new ideas is more alive than ever, especially among artists. These avid creators and consumers of images were among the first to understand that new archival technologies would create endless possibilities and raise dizzying doubts regarding our ability to remember. In contemporary art, this drive represents not so much a theme or a metaphor as a new genre that helps rethink traditional forms of cataloging: map-atlas, cyberspace, index-list, Wunderkammer, database. This is shown by a few great exhibitions, such as Atlas at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum (2011), dOCUMENTA in Kassel (2012), and this years’ Venice Biennale (duration: approx. 120’).
is an art historian and contemporary art critic. She works with the University of Milan and the IUAV university in Venice, where she obtained her Ph.D. with a dissertation on archives as a form and a strategy of art. She has taught at the Catholic University and the Polytechnic of Milan. She is a frequent contributor to Art e Dossier. She has co-edited the books Quando è scultura (et al., 2010) and Arte del corpo (Giunti, 2012). Her interview with the artistic director of the 55th Venice Biennale is about to be published by Skira.
is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Milan University and directs the 2010-2016 program Monument Nonument for Paris’ Collège International de Philosophie. He is an expert of image theories and of the relation between aesthetics and the history of visual arts, particularly in the German speaking world. His recent books include: Estetica della pittura (Il Mulino, 2007); Il rovescio dell’immagine (Tre Lune Edizioni, 2010); Empatia (Laterza, 2011).
EVENT #18
Stefano Bartezzaghi, Massimo Recalcati
To inherit or to be creative? Art in the time of disoriented generations
