International MeInternational Meeting: The Local Tradition of Ceramic and the Globalization of Contemporary Art
October 19/20, 2002
Priamàr Fortress, Savona, Italy
image: Asger Jorn with the Manifesto designed by Farfa for the 1st retrospective of the Futurist Ceramics made in Albisola. The exhibition opened in concomitance with the 1st International Meeting of Free Artists. Alba, 1956.
BIENNALE OF CERAMIC
IN CONTEMPORARY ART
2nd edition
International Meeting:
The Local Tradition of Ceramic and the Globalization of Contemporary Art
October 19/20, 2002, Priamàr Fortress, Savona (Italy).
Introduction:
Aims and goals of the Biennale
Tiziana Casapietra and Roberto Costantino
Founders and Artistic Directors, Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art
Lectures of the Biennale’s co-curators:
>From Earth Comes Local and Universal Art
Nelson Herrera Ysla
Founder of the Wifredo Lam Center and the Havana Biennial, Cuba
Fast food, slow bake and life’s other surprises
Vasif Kortun
Director of the Museum Proje4L and of the Platform Garanti, Istanbul
Crash. The hard peel of matter
Gianfranco Maraniello
Art critic and independent curator, MACRO, Rome
Asger Jorn’s ways to cross the divide
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Guest professor at Facoltà delle Arti, IUAV, Venice
The Matter of the Artist’s Hand
Olu Oguibe
Senior fellow, Vera List Center, New York. Curator of exhibitions for major institutions including the Tate Modern, London; Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City; and a latere of the Venice Biennial.
Hosting the Biennial in a Ceramic Museum
Roland Blaettler & Anne-Claire Schumacher
Curator and Exhibition Curator, Ariana Musée, Geneva
Beyond “Contemporary” Art: Inter-net and Clay
Young Chul Lee
Artistic Director of the 2nd Gwangju Biennale and of the 2nd Pusan Biennale, Korea
Special projects:
The Passionate Asger Jorn’s House in Albisola: Reliefs of a City Never Built
Giorgina Bertolino e Francesca Comisso
Art historians; part of the a.titolo group of critics and curators; Scholars of the “Internazionale Situazionista”; Authors of the General Catalogue of Pinot Gallizio’s oeuvre
Keramos and Melos
Mauro Castellano and Leonardo Gensini
Castellano is pianist, composer, professor at the Nicolò Paganini Conservatory, Genoa. Gensini is composer and ceramist.
The artist-ceramist relationship in Albisola since the early 20th Century
Cecilia Chilosi
Art historian; Co-author of “Xth Century Ceramic in Liguria”, Genoa, 1995
Piero Manzoni in Albisola: From “Organic Life” to the “White Body” 1957-1961
Anna Costantini
Germano Celant Foundation, Genoa; Responsible for the historical research, Piero Manzoni retrospective at the Serpentine, London (98); at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and other locations (91/92)
Art and Ceramic, Project and Matter: a History of the Present for the Company Museum
Linda Kaiser
Art Critic; Scientific consultant for the Museimpresa Association, Milan
Villa Groppallo: avanguard and anti-avanguard in comparison within a worker-town
Giovanni Lunardon
Curator, Pinacoteca Civica, Vado Ligure
Ceramic and artists in the Priamàr Fortress
Eliana Mattiauda
Director, Pinacoteca Civica Savona
Ceramic Alive Language: Arturo Martini between Vado Ligure and Albisola
Liliana Ughetto
Art historian; Co-author of “XXth Century Ceramic in Liguria”, Genoa, 1995
The international meeting will also represent an occasion to inform about the 2nd edition of the Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art opening in the Spring/Summer 2003.
For more info please contact us at info@attese.it or attese@iol.it
Promoters:
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Savona,
Comune di Savona,
Comune di Vado Ligure,
Comune di Albisola Superiore,
Comune di Albissola Marina
organized by:
attese onlus
(nonprofit cultural association)
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