This version of Inside Arabic Calligraphy is without its introduction. It is useful nonetheless. I contemplated deleting it but thought to keep it in case someone has less time to read the whole.
This essay analyses the plant-strewn pages of Brecht Evens' graphic novel art parody The Making Of (2012) from an intertextual point of view that pays special attention to the Pattern and Decoration movement and to the element of kitsch.... more
This essay analyses the plant-strewn pages of Brecht Evens' graphic novel art parody The Making Of (2012) from an intertextual point of view that pays special attention to the Pattern and Decoration movement and to the element of kitsch. As a way of investigating the use of plant-life in art, this analysis shows how plants and flowers, even (and perhaps especially) when abundantly present in an artwork can be effaced in their symbolic and biological capacity and instead come to function in a purely instrumental manner. In light of the overwhelming silence of plants as plants in the graphic novel, this text raises epistemological questions pertaining to the knowability of plants to humans.
English abstract of the PhD Thesis titled "From background to foreground. Le carte da parati come opera d’arte dagli anni Sessanta a oggi. I loro presupposti, i temi, le funzioni e i linguaggi di un medium rinnovato". Università degli... more
English abstract of the PhD Thesis titled "From background to foreground. Le carte da parati come opera d’arte dagli anni Sessanta a oggi. I loro presupposti, i temi, le funzioni e i linguaggi di un medium rinnovato". Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy, 2015.
Catalogue essay for Ortonandon's exhibition, 'Three Go Adventuring Again'. The text analyses and contextualises two key works, 'Family Patterning' and 'How to Die'.
