2011 Programme
Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West
An event designed to address the theme of creativity in Eastern writing and art, and its relationship with Western culture. Gian Carlo Calza will deal with three aspects of oriental aesthetics that are often taken separately in the West: meditation, writing and painting. Especially in East Asia, these three dimensions jointly represent a unified way to knowledge, as recently confirmed by some of the latest neuroscience research. In his talk, Calza will identify the higher sources of creativity in Asia and in the West starting from the debate on elite and mass culture to arrive at the analysis of the eccentric and the extraordinary.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/teaches History of East Asian Art at Venice’s Ca’ Foscari university, where he is a member of the steering board. He directs the International Hokusai Research Center, with seats in Venice and in Milan. He has promoted and coordinated a number of international conferences on related topics, and has been the scientific consultant to some of the most important Oriental art exhibitions in Italy, including Design Giapponese. Una storia dal 1950, set up in 1995 at Milan’s Triennale. Among Calza’s critical essays on the classical and modern art of East Asia are: Cina (Einaudi, 2002); Hiroshige. Il maestro della natura (Skira, 2009); Il canto del guanciale e altre storie (Phaidon, 2010); Hokusai. Il vecchio pazzo per la pittura (edited in 1999), Gengji. Il principe splendente (2008), Utamaro e il quartiere del piacere (2009), all three published by Electa.
Evento n.6
Zygmunt Bauman
Reflections on the notions of community and network, on social networks and Facebook
Evento n.14
Gian Carlo Calza
Different, eccentric, extraordinary: aesthetics and creativity between Asia and the West
Evento n.26
Franco Borgogno
In other people’s hearts and minds. A psychoanalyst between tradition and creativity
Evento n.37
Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni
A quiet sunny day. Attilio Bertolucci and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a friendship in verse
