Contemporary Perspectives on de Chirico: Lisa Yuskavage, Stephen Ellis, and Matvey Levenstein
March 21, 2017
Join us for a special evening as CIMA Fellow Giovanni Casini leads a conversation on Giorgio de Chirico with artists Lisa Yuskavage, Stephen Ellis, and Matvey Levenstein.
Giorgio de Chirico’s wide-ranging body of work, especially his neo-baroque late paintings, has historically baffled critics, and the often contradictory developments of his long artistic career have made it difficult to situate his work within established narratives of modernism. MoMA’s 1982 retrospective, held a few years after the artist’s death, neatly omitted or discounted some two-thirds of the artist’s career, choosing to highlight the Metaphysical period — and showing how problematic the definition of a late de Chirico is. These later works, however, with their dense art historical references, methods of replication or (self-)citation, and ironic approach to painting, have drawn the eye of many contemporary practitioners (including of course Giulio Paolini, one of the subjects of CIMA’s exhibition). The blatantly kitsch taste of de Chirico’s late self-portraits, together with the negation of originality and uniqueness, as well as his pursuit of appropriation and the copy became especially relevant in relation to artistic practices developed in the 1980s.
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MEMBERS ONLY: PRIVATE TOUR OF “MARISA MERZ: THE SKY IS A GREAT SPACE” AT THE MET BREUER
March 07, 2017
CIMA Members are invited to join us for an exclusive tour, outside of public hours, of “Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space” at the Met Breuer, led by the exhibition curator Ian Alteveer, Associate Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art. This exhibition is the first major retrospective in the United States of works by the Turin-based artist (b. 1926), the sole female protagonist of the Arte Povera movement. Spanning five decades of work, the show includes exquisite examples of her early experiments with nontraditional art materials and processes, such as her hand-worked knitted copper wire objects; mid-career installation works; and the emblematic teste or heads that she began creating in the mid-1970s.
CIMA Members will receive a private invitation link to RSVP for this event
Not a CIMA Member? Join us! Members receive free admission to CIMA, access outside of regular public hours, a copy of the annual catalogue, and invitations to exclusive events and receptions.
On Mimmo Rotella: Germano Celant in conversation with Elizabeth Mangini
March 06, 2017
Join us for an evening with art historian and curator Germano Celant, exploring the early work of Mimmo Rotella (1918-2006), on the occasion of the opening of a new exhibition at the Gladstone Gallery, “Mimmo Rotella: Selected Early Works,” realized in collaboration with the Mimmo Rotella Institute in Milan. Celant, the editor in charge of the Rotella catalogue raisonné project, will be in conversation with Elizabeth Mangini, Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts and an art historian who specializes in European art of the 1960s-70s.
The Gladstone show, which encompasses works from 1953-1962, bookends two pivotal moments for Rotella in the United States: his year as a Fulbrighter “Artist in Residence” at the Kansas City University in 1951-52, and 1962, when two of his works were included in the “New Realists” exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, which presented the most important artists involved in international Pop Art. This talk will explore the pioneering décollage and retro d’affiche techniques that Rotella developed in these years, as well as the impact that his relations with artists such as Alberto Burri, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Salvatore Scarpitta, and others had on his creative process; and look to place Rotella in a larger context of post-war European and American art.
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Reception to follow. Reception and videography generously underwritten by Gladstone Gallery.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
At the Met: Germano Celant and CIMA Fellows on Marisa Merz
March 05, 2017
Join us Sunday March 5th at 2pm at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall in the Uris Center for Education for a conversation with renowned art historian and curator Germano Celant, led by CIMA Fellows Maria Bremer and Fabio Cafagna. Presented in connection with the retrospective at the Met Breuer, “Marisa Merz: The Sky is a Great Space,” this program will explore Marisa Merz’s work and the context of the 1970s in Turin. Ian Alteveer, assistant curator at the Met and the organizer of the Met’s presentation of the Merz exhibition, will offer a introduction to the exhibition at the start of the program.
The program is expected to last one hour. Audience members will be able to visit the Marisa Merz exhibition following the lecture, by walking over to the Met Breuer building, which is open on Sunday until 5:30pm.
Read Fabio Cafagna’s review of the Marisa Merz exhibition on CIMA’s blog, or in Italian on La Voce di New York.
ARMORY WEEK OPEN HOUSE
March 04, 2017
In honor of Armory Arts Week, CIMA is offering a free open house on Saturday March 4th from 11am to 6pm.
Come enjoy the Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico exhibition, in CIMA’s exquisite and intimate loft setting.
Informal tours of the exhibition led by our scholars in residence will be offered throughout the day.
Drawing Night
February 22, 2017
Join us for a special Drawing Night, in collaboration with the International Studio & Curatorial Program opening CIMA’s unique and intimate setting to students and artists and encouraging them to interact with, analyze, and draw inspiration from Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini’s works.
Megan Sullivan, ISCP 2016–17 artist in residence sponsored by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, will lead the event by opening with reflections on her artistic practice, drawing, and questions raised by the works on exhibition at CIMA. Participants will have the opportunity to sketch for approximately an hour, before coming back together to discuss the works and share insights into what was learned in the process.
Paper has been provided by the legendary Italian papermaker Fabriano, who recently celebrated the 750th anniversary of papermaking in Fabriano, Italy.
Limited to 30 participants. Ticket: $8, free for CIMA Members.
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Event Schedule:
6pm Registration
6:10 Introduction by Megan Sullivan
6:30-7:30 Drawing Time
7:30 Discussion
8pm Conclusion of Program
About the artist:
Megan Francis Sullivan lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She studied at Cooper Union, New York and Städelschule, Frankfurt. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bern, 2016; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, 2015; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, 2014; and Mathew Gallery, Berlin, 2014.
An Evening with Edoardo Albinati
February 21, 2017
Join us for a conversation between Edoardo Albinati, Italian writer and Winner of the 2016 Strega Literary Prize, and Alessandro Giammei, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University.
The discussion will address Albinati’s authorship and literary work surrounding the relationships between reality and fiction, Italian masculinity and patriarchy, education and the city of Rome, baroque and mannerism.
Please note that the conversation will be in Italian.
The event is presented in collaboration with Casa delle Letterature, Rome, Italy.
Post-It: Reconsidering the Postmodern in Italian Art and Performance
February 14, 2017
Day 1: Monday February 13 (1:30pm – 6pm)
Day 2: Tuesday February 14 (10am – 6pm)
The Center for Italian Modern Art is pleased to announce the Study Day, Post-It: Reconsidering the Postmodern in Italian Art and Performance Since 1965, organized in connection with the exhibition Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico and held in the days leading up to the 105th meeting of the College Art Association. Co-sponsored by the Italian Art Society, this Study Day seeks to bring together scholars from various disciplines and approaches to consider the place of 20th-century Italian art in relation to postmodernism.
DAY ONE: Monday February 13 (1:30pm – 6pm)
DAY TWO: Tuesday February 14 (10am – 6pm)
FULL PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
Monday February 13
1:30-3:00
Viewing of the Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini Exhibition and Registration Welcome
3:00-3:30
Denis Viva
Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art History, University of Trento; Adjunct Professor Museum Practices, University of Udine
Postmodern Ancestors: Giorgio De Chirico according to Renato Barilli
3:30-4:00
Anna Mecugni
Independent Curator and Scholar, New Orleans, LA
The Postmodern Question in Italy: de Chirico, Gruppo 63, and Ontani’s Tableaux, 1965-78
4:00-4:30
Maria Bremer
CIMA Fellow 2016-17
A Relational Self: Epigonism and Pathos in Vettor Pisani’s Performance: “L’Eroe da camera,” 1972
4:30-5:00
Coffee break
5:00-5:45
Keynote Speaker: Lucia Re
Professor of Italian and Gender Studies, UCLA
Neo-Avant-Garde and Kitsch: The Gendering of Postmodern Art in Umberto Eco, Gillo Dorfles and Lucia Marcucci
5:45-6:15
Q&A Session
Tuesday, February 14
10:00-10:30
Registration and Welcome
10:30-11:00
Romy Golan
Professor of 20th-Century European Art, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Magic Realism Redux: Pistoletto and Casorati
11:00-11:30
Lily Goldberg
Department of Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Schermi, Luna e Televisore: The White Monochromes of Fabio Mauri
11:30-12:00
Stefano Chiodi
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, Università Roma Tre
Lo Scorrevole: Vettor Pisani’s “Theatre of Cruelty”
12:00-12:30
Q&A Session
12:30-2:00
Lunch + Tours of Exhibition
2:00-2:30
Tenley Bick
Independent Scholar, Los Angeles, CA
Productive Plagiarism: Michelangelo Pistoletto and Vettor Pisani’s Plagio (1970–1976)
2:30-3:00
Jennifer Blessing
Senior Curator of Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Gina Pane: Feminism and Performance
3:00-3:30
Q&A Session
3:30-4:00
Coffee break
4:00-4:30
Jon Snyder, Professor of Italian Studies, UC Santa Barbara
“In a station of the metro”: William Kentridge in Naples
4:30-5:00
Emily Braun
Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Men without Women: The Transavanguardia Revisited
5.00-6:00
Roundtable Q&A
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Drawing Night
January 25, 2017
Join us for a special Drawing Night, in collaboration with the International Studio & Curatorial Program opening CIMA’s unique and intimate setting to students and artists and encouraging them to interact with, analyze, and draw inspiration from Giorgio de Chirico and Giulio Paolini’s works.
Naomi Campbell, ISCP 2016–17 artist in residence, will lead the event by opening with reflections on her artistic practice, drawing, and questions raised by the works on exhibition at CIMA. Participants will have the opportunity to sketch for approximately an hour, before coming back together to discuss the works and share insights into what was learned in the process.
Paper has been provided by the legendary Italian papermaker Fabriano, who recently celebrated the 750th anniversary of papermaking in Fabriano, Italy.
Limited to 30 participants. Ticket: $8, free for CIMA Members.
BOOK NOW!
Event Schedule:
6pm Registration
6:10 Introduction by Naomi Campbell
6:30-7:30 Drawing Time
7:30 Discussion
8pm Conclusion of Program
About the artist:
Naomi Campbell has painted and sculpted over 29 years. She is a faculty instructor of the Contemporary Figure in Watercolor at the Art Students League of New York since 2007. Her guest lectures and workshops include the Morgan Library and Museum, MTA Arts & Design and the New York Transit Museum.
Campbell was born in Montreal, Canada and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
She studied at the Collége de Champlain in Quebec, the University of Guelph in Ontario, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She also studied painting and printmaking at The Art Students League of New York. Her art is displayed in numerous permanent public collections, some of which include the City of New York; the City of Irving, Texas; the City of Geochang, South Korea; the New York Public Library; the New York State Museum, NY; and the Trenton City Museum, New Jersey.
Outliers, Mavericks and Risk-takers: The Emergence and Legacy of Downtown
January 19, 2017
Outliers, Mavericks and Risk-takers: The Emergence and Legacy of Downtown
A program organized by the New York Foundation for the Arts
CIMA is pleased to host “Outliers, Mavericks and Risk-takers: The Emergence and Legacy of Downtown,” a panel discussion organized by the New York Foundation for the Arts and held in collaboration with the SoHo Arts Network and the Grey Art Gallery of New York University, exhibiting Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965.
Taking up the story where Inventing Downtown leaves off, this panel will examine downtown’s further evolution, from the opening of commercial galleries in SoHo in the late 1960s to the emergence of the Lower East Side as a new art hub. It will also shed light on the pioneering efforts of the adventurous risk-takers who helped make downtown the epicenter of the New York art scene. Speakers will include Betty Cuningham, Betty Cuningham Gallery; Michael Findlay, Acquavella Gallery; Eric Firestone, Eric Firestone Gallery and Patricia Margarita Hernandez, P! Gallery.
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Program schedule:
6pm – registration, opportunity for viewing Giorgio de Chirico / Giulio Paolini exhibition
6:25pm – start of panel conversation, moderated by Grace Glueck, followed by Q&A
7:30pm – end of program; opportunity for viewing de Chirico/Paolini exhibition
8pm – close
