Un œil, une histoire 2014
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Fondazione Giorgio Cini organizes a conference on Figurative art and abstract art, the theme of the 1954 conference during which the Istituto was officially presented. Two days of conferences and screenings of documentaries are organized in different locations and in collaboration with Fondazione Cini.
October 30
Fondazione Giorgio Cini | Island San Giorgio Maggiore
Conference Figurative art, abstract art 1954-2014
The discussion focuses on the state of art criticism, in reference to the protagonists and voices of the historical gathering of 1954 and on the main themes that were focused on that occasion, with the aim of drawing the perimeter and the historiographical boundaries that followed and the current critical perspectives, and underlying there is the ambition to establish a plot of comparisons on the current state of historical research methodologies-artistic art and criticism of the twentieth century. Some of the topics concerned the post-war French, Italian and German critics (taking into account the presences of the time), the 1954 Biennale, the abstract-figurative debate, the Group of Eight, the role of Severini, American abstraction and incursions in sculpture in the post-war period, Europe of the fifties between Informel / Spatialism and neo-avant-garde and other focus generated by the conference.
The interventions of the protagonists of this congress - including Sergio Bettini, Lionello Venturi, Giulio Carlo Argan, and artists such as Gino Severini, Felice Carena, Emilio Vedova - and the main topics addressed on this occasion, serve as a starting point for an analysis of artistic criticism and historical artistic research today. The language of post-war art criticism is the subject of the interventions of Enrico Crispolti and Flavio Fergonzi that open the debate on October 30. This is followed by the presentation by Luca Massimo Barbero on an in-depth study of the Venice of 1954, marked by the Biennale and by the congress itself; an analysis of the international exchanges between art critics and artists of the time, in particular French and Italian, Fabrice Hergott and Sileno Salvagnini; the presentations by Paolo Rusconi and Stephen Petersen, respectively dedicated to Renato Birolli and the theme of space, central both in abstract and figurative art.
October 31
Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi
Presentation of Un œil, une histoire
Directed by Marianne Alphant and Pascale Bouhénic, the series of documentaries "Un œil, une histoire" lets major international art historian from different generations and countries express themselves. The first five documentaries, which will be presented, focus on Georges Didi-Huberman, Rosalind Krauss, Michel Thévoz, Gilles A. Tiberghien and Victor Stoichita. Each of them presents his or her journey and passion for art through a selection of works that are particularly significant to them. The images that accompany these stories enable the viewer to discover the protagonist's world, taste, their interpretation of artistic movements, as well as the methods of analysis and judgments they have used in their personal research. Each film offers a point of view on the history of art to understand better the world that surrounds us.
Program of screenings of the documentaries
Victor Stoichita, L’image super-langage, 41’19’’
Gilles A. Tiberghien, Extension du domaine de l’art, 41’41
Michel Thévoz, Hélium, Hydrogène et histoire de l’art, 46’
Georges Didi-Huberman, Douze images pour le meilleur et pour le pire, 44’42
Rosalind Krauss, Une moderniste, une vraie, 40’
Followed by a conference with Marianne Alphant and Pascale Bouhénic, and a panel discussion with Victor Stoichita, Michel Thévoz and Gilles Tiberghien.