Where and when
Speeches by: Barbara Cinelli, Gianni Garrera, Lamberto Pignotti, Stefania Stefanelli
Moderators: Benedetta Carpi De Resmini and Michele Brescia
Protests against the nascent mass society, the struggles in favor of abortion, divorce, women’s emancipation and the complexity of the verb-visual language are some of the issues addressed in the catalog Poetic struggle. The political message in visual poetry 1965 – 1978, edited by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini. The volume traces the exhibition organized by the curator herself, in collaboration with Michele Brescia, at the Monti Uniti Foundation in Foggia, in May 2017.
The book, to which leading scholars of the Italian panorama have contributed, stands as a publication aimed at researching and deepening the historical avant-garde of Visual Poetry, born in the 1960s and characterized by fruitful literary and artistic experimentation. Within the group, in fact, innovative research methods were undertaken in terms of language and artistic expression and burning issues were addressed, testifying the active participation of the artists in the civil and political life of the period.
The evening will be inaugurated by a performance Gestures of relationship created by the young duo Grossi Maglioni (Francesca Grossi and Vera Maglioni) who will open a dialogue with the museum public. The artists have created for the exhibition and on the occasion of the presentation of the book a performative device to meditate and make us reflect on the fight / war combination and on the importance of some words in our lexicon and sign language.
Benedetta Carpi De Resmini
She is curator and art critic. He is interested in the contamination between artists of the twentieth century and emerging artists. He is a teacher at the Sole24ore Business School for the Master in Management of Cultural Heritage. She was senior curator at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome. He has collaborated as visiting professor with the University of Roma Tre and the La Sapienza University of Rome. He has created columns dedicated to art for non-sector magazines and collaborates with periodicals in the Exibart and Art and Critics sectors. Previously he also worked as artistic director for the Galleria dell’Oca, Rome (2005-2007). He has curated numerous projects of national and international importance. Among the latest are: MAGMA, National Gallery Vilnius, Central Institute for Graphics, Rome, 2017-2018; Luca Maria Patella, Animated Projective Environments 1964-1984, MACRO, 2015; Annika Larsson, Introduction, MACRO, 2014.
Barbara Cinelli teaches Sources and Materials for Contemporary Art at the University of Roma Tre. He is vice president of the Luciano Caruso Archive Foundation and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the journal Studi di Memofonte. Recent publications include: The great game of art, Lugano 2015, Manzù. Dialogues on spirituality with Lucio Fontana, Castel Sant’Angelo 2016; Plinio De Martiis and Cesare Vivaldi: market strategies and artist research in Rome in the 1960s, Milan 2017.
Gianni Garrera, musical philologist and translator, he is the curator of Kierkegaard’s aesthetic works for the ‘Classics of Thought’ BUR and of the new edition of Kierkegaard’s Diaries for Morcelliana; teaches Theatrical Aesthetics at the Teatro Stabile di Napoli School of Theater. Among his latest works: Preliminaries to world harmony, in Tomas Saraceno, Cosmic Jive, Villa Croce-Assinello Museum, Genoa 2014; Appendices to the construction of the great wall, in Vittorio Messina, Post-babel, MACRO-Quodlibet, Rome 2015; S. Kierkegaard, Fables, Morcelliana, Brescia 2016.
Lamberto Pignotti, artist, born in Florence, 1926. In the early 1960s he conceived and theorized the first forms of “technological poetry” and “visual poetry”, of which he edited the first anthology in 1965, identifying fifteen authors. In 1963 he created, with Miccini, Chiari and other artists and critics, the “Group 70” and a few months later he participated in the formation of the “Group 63”. Since 1971 he has carried out, first as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and then at the DAMS of the Faculty of Arts in Bologna, courses on the various relationships between avant-gardes, mass-media and new-media. Appropriating images published in newspapers and magazines, frames from films or advertising slogans, his artistic research operates an action of emptying the sense of the primary meaning of a word or an image, arriving at a sort of boomerang restitution that “rejects the goods to the sender “. He has participated in the most important art exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1968, 1972, 1978).
Stefania Stefanelli she was a researcher at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, she taught at the DAMS in Bologna, at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and at the University of Florence. He has carried out research on the languages of Futurism, the Neo-avant-gardes and contemporary Italian theater. She is a member of ASLI and author of the volumes I Manifesti futuristi. Art and lexicon (Livorno, Sillabe, 2001), Italian goes on stage. The language of the theater between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Florence, Cesati, 2006), verbovisive and synaesthetic writing (with Lamberto Pignotti, Udine, Campanotto, 2011). He collaborates with the Accademia della Crusca, for which he also edited the Proceedings of the Conference The Italian language and the theater of diversity (2012).
Francesca Grossi e Vera Maglioni they live and work in Rome. The Grossi Maglioni duo has established its research mainly in the field of performance art, installation and workshop-based practices, with participation in residencies, national and international exhibitions in galleries, museum and academic institutions including: Nuova Gestione, Rome; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, SW; Viafarini, Milan; MACRO, Rome; Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, AU; 26 cc space for contemporary art, Rome; ERBA Ecole Régionale des Beaux Arts de Besançon, Besançon, FR; Konstall museum, Vasa, FI; University of Technology, Guangzhou, CN; Rupextre residence for artists and anthropologists Matera; (Anti) realism Guanghzou Academy of Fine Arts CN; Since 2008 the duo has been part of the international research platform for performing arts, science and technologies “Vision Forum”, based in Sweden, for which they conceived and curated the 1st On Line Performance Festival which took place entirely on the web.
Image: Luciano Ori, Il filo della bellezza, 1963, Collage su cartoncino, Collezione Carlo Palli, Prato.