Searching for a New Way
On friday 15 december will take place in Modena SEARCHING FOR A NEW WAY, a roundtable organized within the initiatives of Generazione Critica, platform of research and discussion on contemporary art practice, with a specific focus on experiences from 2000 onwards.
The roundable will be open by Gianpietro Cavazza, Councilor of Culture, Modena Municipality and Filippo Maggia, Educational Director, Fondazione Fotografia Modena. The lecturers that will join the discussion are Alessandro Carrer (art critic, professor ISIA Urbino), Daniele De Luigi (curator, Galleria Civica Modena), Vincenzo Estremo (critic and curator, editorial director Droste Effect), Sergio Giusti (critic and professor, CFP Bauer Milan), Francesca Lazzarini (independent curator), Elena Giulia Rossi (art critic, curator and editorial director, Arshake), Carlo Sala (curator, Francesco Fabbri Foundation), Gabriele Tosi (critic and curator). The conversation will be moderate by Vittorio Iervese (professor, Modena and Reggio Emilia University).
Image credibility into the cultural and social context, the scenario generated by the digital in contemporary art, the artistic production within the mass information environment, photography among information and representation, photography as social option; these are some of the themes the lecturers will deal with in an open dialogue with the public, with the aim of providing tools and ideas to orientate into the complex world of contemporary art. Lecturers, in the singularity of role and interest, will dialogue around these topics, finding out some possible common tendencies in artistic practice with a concurrently action of reshape the role of the art critic in a contemporary context.
Generazione critica is promoted and organized by Metronom, with the Patronage of Modena Municipality, in collaboration with Fondazione Fotografia, Modena. Generazione Critica is part of the program Mapping the Studio.
Cover image: MDMA & 2C-B, from the project The Iceberg by Giorgio Di Noto, 2017
Free entrance, subject to availability.
For any request: www.metronom.it / www.generazionecritica.it
SEARCHING FOR A NEW WAY
Art, photography and critic
Friday 15 december 2017
5 - 7.30 pm
Sala ex-Oratorio, Palazzo dei Musei
Viale Vittorio Veneto, 5 - Modena
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