History of Contemporary Art
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This research focuses on Joan Miró's interest in Japanese Calligraphy and the works that belonged to his collection.
ETERNAL NETWORK: A MAIL ART ANTHOLOGY is the first university press publication in academia to explore the historical roots, aesthetics and new directions of contemporary mail art. The essays of ETERNAL NETWORK were written and assembled... more
ETERNAL NETWORK: A MAIL ART ANTHOLOGY is the first university press publication in academia to explore the historical roots, aesthetics and new directions of contemporary mail art. The essays of ETERNAL NETWORK were written and assembled... more
In the 1960s and 1970s Giulio Macchi employed leading figures of Italian contemporary art to design the sets and the titles of some of his most famous Rai broadcasts. Macchi understood the potential of an ‘artistic’ approach to television... more
The image of the “other” city: Learning from Las Vegas, or on the Necessity of an American Grand Tour -- Las Vegas – the “other” city par excellence even in the multifaceted American urban landscape – had never been a case... more
PhD Thesis in History of Art (Sapienza University of Roma): Table of Contents and Introduction.
Supervisors: Carla Subrizi and Claudio Zambianchi
Academic Year: 2015-2016
Supervisors: Carla Subrizi and Claudio Zambianchi
Academic Year: 2015-2016
Alla metà del Settecento si trasformano radicalmente tutti gli aspetti della vita europea. È su questo piano che si misurano anche i problemi di un ritardo storico, vero o presunto, dell’arte e della cultura in Sardegna. Avvicinatisi al... more
THE GEOMETRIAS & GRAPHICA 2015 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The lecture deals with the complex nature of James Turrell's artistic work: it's based on a synchronous and innovative use of geometry, sensory perception and art, capable of inducing... more
This essay (in Italian) is the introduction to the exhibition on Fausto Melotti, the first Italian abstract sculptor along with Lucio Fontana, held at the Mart Museum of Rovereto in 2012.
The research aimed at studying and analysing the contemporary art publishing system in Milan during the Thirties, on the basis of a mapping of the specialised book production with a major focus on its forms, mechanisms and leading... more
«Il tema di questo libro è l’ideale dell’arte assoluta, che ha guidato incessantemente la produzione artistica pur avendola sempre elusa. Questa aspirazione irrealizzabile dell’arte è spesso confusa con l’ossessione di produrre qualcosa... more
The article traces common points between Alighiero Boetti's and Bruce Nauman's art practices.
The book was published in conjunction with the exhibition "Too much is not enough!
The Donation "Artelier Collection"" at the Neue Galerie in Graz.
The Donation "Artelier Collection"" at the Neue Galerie in Graz.
Problem Statement: The quality and meaning of life are continuously attached to the presence of elements, objects, things, people and concepts; the absence means denying and depriving the presence, has strengthen this concept, hence has... more
The chapter is an original research (from Almerini post-degree dissertation) on the 'Cooperativa Beato Angelico', an experimental art space run by women, mostly artists, in the seventies in Rome, some of whom had exited Rivolta after the... more
In recent history, and through various mechanisms, the Turkish nation-state has attempted to impose a singular identity, homogenizing citizenship and denying belonging to the country’s minority communities. Through the works of... more
Evidences of the Zóbel´s first trip to Japan in 1953
Una fenomenologia delle Scritture sacre di Joseph Beuys; origini, storia e vicissitudini delle sei lavagne di Perugia.
In un suo recente libro 1 , la scrittrice statunitense Siri Hustvedt (1955) ha ricostruito su diversi piani narrativi la vita di Harriet Burden , artista immaginaria il cui talento non venne riconosciuto in vita dal mondo della critica a... more
Conferenza presso Ca' dei Ricchi Treviso, 6 aprile 2016
The lecture deals with the complex nature of James Turrell’s artistic work: it’s based on a synchronous and innovative use of geometry, sensory perception and art, capable of inducing altered states in the viewer’s perception of space and... more
Since the 2010s, an increasing number of artists have contravened the flatness and the hanging standards of the photographic print. Their three-dimensional photographic works are not just framed and hung on the wall, but take possession... more