Events

This workshop explores the entanglement of artistic production, human mobility and border politics between Italy and North Africa from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth century. Its main objective is to challenge the hegemony of European and North American models in studies of modern Italian art, shedding light on the interconnectedness of culture, history and politics across the Mediterranean. [mehr]

From the nineteenth century onwards, progressive historians emphasized labour as central to social history, and to artistic practice itself: the artist as worker. But what becomes of this view when labour—artistic as well as non-artistic—is fundamentally reframed by artificial intelligence? This question connects directly to the work of Hans Hess, the German Jewish émigré art historian who introduced museology to the UK and played a decisive role in the postwar reception of German Expressionism. Hess placed labour at the centre of art history, and his many unpublished writings are now coming to light through an ongoing archival project. [mehr]

Nelle ultime decadi la critica decoloniale e postcoloniale ha riaperto il dibattito sul Sud, senza però chiarirne la natura. In questo seminario Leonardo Mastromauro lo interroga come intensità che destituisce le operazioni del potere. [mehr]

Direttore della Bibliotheca Hertziana dal 1953 al 1962, Metternich ha riconosciuto nel disegno lo strumento più efficaci per comprendere i progetti per la Basilica Vaticana. La mostra Disegnare per capire è concepita come un percorso tra schizzi e tavole di presentazione, seguendo pensieri interrotti e ipotesi abbandonate che hanno definito le forme dell’edificio attuale. [mehr]

The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History is pleased to announce Chi esce entra, a site-specific and one-time exhibition curated by Simon W ürsten Marin. [mehr]