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September 2020

Sara Benaglia, artist

LVNATICA (Research project. July 2020) LVNATICA is a short draft of a book that I started to write few months ago. Its object of research is the interpretation of the “V” gesture in paintings realized by illustrious artist of Manerism in the territories of La Serenissima in the 16th century.The iconographic apparatus stems form and then builds upon the text by Mauro Zanchi, Sotto il Segno di Diana. Tiziano, Palma il Vecchio e i mi

September 2020

Giorgio Di Noto, artist

The Offing, 2017 On which fields of knowledge are you focused? My first interest was of course photography and all the possibilities of printing and making an image, especially the analogue and manual techniques. After a few years my interest shifted more generally to images and their visual dimensions which open to new possibilities of understanding. What is the object of your research?  Ambiguity of photographic im

September 2020

Marta Tonelli, architect and photographer

Ėjzenštejn. Il montaggio come metodo compositivo (essay) Ėjzenštejn con un teschio di zucchero Aby Warburg nel 1929. The Warburg Institute Archive, London. Schizzi per la suite La morte del toro Tipizzazioni messicane. Studi per la sequenza del mercato di Tehuantepec dell’episodio Sandunga di Que viva Mexico! Donne messicane. Studi per la sequenza del mercato di Tehuantepec dell’episodio Sandunga di Que viva Mexico! Schizzo per la sistemazione d

June 2020

Giuliana Bruno, writer

Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film, published by Verso, 2002 and Johan & Levi, 2015 Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between “sight” and “site” and “motion” and “emotion.” In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Louise Bourgeois, the filmmaking of Peter Gree

June 2020

Maddalena Parise, visual artist and researcher

Il filo dell’arazzo, 2020  Il filo dell'arazzo, preview Maddalena Parise projects involve both research and creation of visual tools.  Il filo dell’arazzo is an immersive and multilayered installation made out of diverse visual and sound devices: light boxes, slides, tracing papers, video projections, small sound amplifiers or earphones. The installation-atlas is a guide through the complex issue of extinction focusing on the mass ‘rarefaction’ that is affe

June 2020

Marco Paltrinieri, artist

Andrè Malraux, Museum Without Walls, published by Granada Publishing, 1974 Over the last forty years of his life, Malraux would assemble, disassemble, and reassemble montages of photographic reproductions to create Le Musée imaginaire, which ranks as one the twentieth century’s seminal manifestations of the archive. Malraux’s idea of an imaginary museum, a “museum without walls” (which he first announced in 1947), is a prescient manifesto of the digital age that en