Interviews on Pietro Consagra

Thursday 4 December,

9.30 - 13.00

Introduction

• Francesco TEDESCHI, Stefano SETTI, Gabriella DI MILIA
• Pietro Consagra. Catalogue raisonné of sculptures.

Methods and functions

• Luca Massimo BARBERO, Director of the Institute of Art History of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice. Curator of the catalogue raisonné of Pietro Consagra's sculptures, Skira 2023

Chair: Luca Massimo BARBERO

• Necessity and possibility of sculpture. Theory and practice: 1947-1953
  Francesco TEDESCHI, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
  Director of the Research Centre on Abstract Arts in Italy
• Notes on the concept of frontality in Pietro Consagra's sculpture and its persistence in Italian visual culture
  Daniela LANCIONI, Senior Curator, Palazzo Esposizioni Rome
• Pietro Consagra's Bitumi, between drawing, painting and sculpture
  Francesco GUZZETTI, University of Florence
• Consagra and matter
  Barbara FERRIANI, Restorer
• The ghosts of the golden age. Marble and stone in the works of Pietro Consagra 1972-1977
  Duccio NOBILI, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

Debate

14.30 - 17.30

Chair: Francesca POLA

• The place of sculpture. Location as a plastic element
  Stefano SETTI, University of Bologna
• Consagra colore, Consagra painter
  Giorgia GASTALDON, University of Rome Tor Vergata
• "Frontal" pages. Pietro Consagra's artist's books
  Federica BORAGINA, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
• Frontality and sexuality: rereading Consagra with Lonzi
  Francesco VENTRELLA, University of Sussex
• Self-portrait of Carla Lonzi: from talks with Pietro Consagra to something different
  Gabriella DI MILIA, President of the Pietro Consagra Archive, Milan

Debate

Friday 5 December, 

9.30 - 13.00

Chair: Francesco TEDESCHI

• Frontality and authenticity. Architecture in Pietro Consagra and Marta Lonzi
  Marco BIRAGHI, Politecnico di Milano
• Frontal sculpture and American architecture: a turning point
  Francesca POLA, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan
• The burnt woods. Transatlantic talks
  Peter Benson MILLER, Roma Tre University
• "With a ghostly life". Consagra and the critique of late modernism
  Kevin MCMANUS, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan
• "If art critics were photographers...". The other half of the crisis of criticism
  Giorgio ZANCHETTI, University of Milan
• Rereading "Vita mia"
  Giuseppe LUPO, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

Debate / conclusions

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