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Book presentation by Alessandra Scappini
Speakers Federico Fastelli, Ernestina Pellegrini and Corrado Premuda
The author will be present
This study retraces the creative itineraries of five artist-writers, Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, Remedios Varo, who approached the surrealist avant-garde entourage almost at the end of the 1930s, in an attempt to investigate a series of common themes to set up a comparison and open a series of links, as in a hypertext, for a critical reflection on their life experience and research.
In the various chapters, questions and case studies alternate relating to paths aimed at the construction of themselves in relation to their own identity as women and traveling artists, but primarily of people who have traced a furrow in the artistic history of the twentieth century by nourishing, beyond beyond the suggestions drawn from contemporary creative experiences, the fertile ground of the avant-gardes. They are characterized by the complexity of a recurring imaginary landscape
to archetypal and totemic symbologies, to organic metamorphism, to clairvoyance as seeker heroines, to the alchemical process to renew herself and express her feminine potential, as energy for change, the natura naturans of being a woman, humor noir as an ironic vision of a composite world that stands out in their works made up of a melting pot of elements that testify to their cultural nomadism, distinguishing themselves as significant personalities who conducted their own experimentation with autonomy and originality in the historical and cultural context of their time.
Alessandra Scappini
She is a historian and contemporary art critic. He has taught at the University of Florence and at the Milan Polytechnic. He is carrying out research in the field of gender studies between art and literature of the twentieth century at the University of Murcia in Spain. He has published essays and books on the historical avant-gardes, including Thayaht: Vita, writings and correspondence, Milan; Machine and machinery in contemporary art, Milan; Notes for e-learning art teaching, Santarcangelo di Romagna.
Image credits: Gianluca Sgherri, Medicina, 1997, olio su tavola, cm 40×50,1 ©Gianluca Sgherri