Archivi categoria: art

‘engaged visuality’: rome, 7-8 july, 2022

Academia Belgica, Rome. July 7, 2022 / Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”. July 8, 2022, Jul 7–08, 2022

International Symposium: “Engaged Visuality. The Italian and Belgian Poesia Visiva Phenomenon in the 60s and 70s.” Organized by Maria Elena Minuto (Université de Liège; KU Leuven) and Jan De Vree (M HKA Museum, Antwerp) fifty-one years after “Lotta Poetica” foundation.

July 7, 2022, 09:00 am – 6:00 pm (Academia Belgica, Rome. Sala Conferenze)

July 8, 2022, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Rome. Aula Odeion, Museo dell’Arte Classica)

Conference language: English, French, and Italian. Open to the public.

description + panels here: https://arthist.net/archive/36872

stephanie chadwick: “jean dubuffet, bricoleur”

Sandro Ricaldone

STEPHANIE CHADWICK
Jean Dubuffet, bricoleur.
Portraits, Pastiche, Performativity
Ava Publishing, 2022

Celebrating Art Brut (the art of ostensible outsiders) while posing as an outsider himself, Dubuffet mingled with many great artists, writers, and theorists, developing an elaborate and nuanced stream of conceptual resources to reconfigure painting and reframe postwar anticultural discourses. This book reexamines Dubuffet’s art through the lens of these portraits (a veritable who’s who of the Parisian art and intellectual scene) in tandem with his writings and the art and writings of his Surrealist sitters. Investigating Dubuffet’s painting as bricolage, this book reveals his reliance upon an anticulture culture and the appropriation of motifs from Surrealism to the South Pacific to explore the themes of multivalence, performativity, and multifaceted identity in his portraits.

fino al 26 agosto: hanji, officine didattiche

Mostra “Hanji. Officine didattiche”
Alla ricerca di se stessi con la Carta dei mille anni

Inaugurazione mostra: Mercoledì 22 Giugno 2022, ore 19:00

Periodo mostra: dal 23 Giugno al 26 Agosto 2022
Istituto Culturale Coreano, primo piano “Sala Esposizioni” – Via Nomentana 10/12, 00161, Roma

* Si tratta di una nuova mostra diversa da “CartaCoreana” terminata il 22 maggio

La carta coreana Hanji, chiamata anche carta millenaria per la sua grande durevolezza, diventa la materia principale del progetto espositivo realizzato in collaborazione tra Istituto Culturale Coreano e Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma che sarà aperto al pubblico dal 22 giugno al 26 agosto.

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via negativa and asemic writing / jim leftwich. 2022


Mysticism, whether atheistic or otherwise, has always welcomed a spectrum of experiences valued primarily for their absurdity and futility. The experience of asemic writing, whether one is attempting to write it or attempting to read it, is fundamentally a mystical experience. It is The Face That Is No Face, the Via Negativa.

Let’s say I make a sequence of tangled squiggles, with baggy loops here, jagged-edged bulges there, poncruated with curatorial punctuation marks in the form of randomly tilted ascenders and descenders, moving suggestively from left to right on the foundation of an imaginary baseline. It looks like writing, but we can’t read it, says the entry at Wikipedia. It must be asemic writing, says a contextualized leap of faith.

What if it is, in theory and in practice, experientially, a kind of quasi-calligraphic drawing?

This is not the Via Negativa. It is direct experience of the mystery. Direct Experience of The Mystery. There is no wrong reading, judged and condemned by official authorities on the matter. There are no Official Authorities on the matter. And there is no range of acceptable interpretations of the experience, no spectrum of permitted discourse about the acceptable interpretations.
There is no attempt at reading, not of any variety, and therefore there is no writing, of any variety, asemic or otherwise.

Asemic writing, in its absolute failure to exist, can function in our lives as a kind of pagan spiritual discipline, one designed to give us greater access to the experience of experience.