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“The art work and its places. 17th Spring School of the International Network for research education in the history of art “

The Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal and the University of Montreal are pleased to present the “XVIIe École de printemps du Réseau international pour la formation à la recherche en histoire de l’art”, which is dedicated this year to the subject “The artwork and its places”. Maria Grazia Messina (University of Florence) and Alessandro Nigro (University of Florence) will also take part School activities.

Monday May, 13th – Friday 17th May 2019
University of Montreal
For detailed program, places and schedule please see the booklet or visit www.proartibus.org

As part of its 17th edition, the Réseau international pour la formation à la recherche en histoire de l’art (RIFHA) PhD Program invites its partners to reflect on the relation between the artwork and the sites where it takes place. Avoiding the vast field of representation of places (scenery, cartography, landscapes, theories of perspective), the scientific program aims to focus on the various modes through which artworks are inflected, on the modification of perception and the uses of a site artistically influenced.

Alessandro Nigro was educated at Rome (La Sapienza) and Padua universities, and he is currently Associate Professor of History of Art Criticism at the University of Florence. In 2017 he was the recipient of the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor of Art History and was awarded the Directeur d’études associé fellowship at Paris Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme.
He has published books on Alfred Kubin (1981), Carl Gustav Carus (1992) and Minimal Art (2003) as well as essays on Symbolism, the avantgardes (with special emphasis on Balla and Depero’s Futurist theatrical experiments) and George Kubler. His latest publications include an essay on Bernard Berenson and the oriental art dealers in Paris (Studi di Memofonte, 2015) and a book on Surrealism (Ritratti e autoritratti surrealisti. Fotografia e fotomontaggio nella Parigi di André Breton, 2015).

Maria Grazia Messina, full professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Florence, has been working in figurative culture from neoclassicism to romanticism, with several essays on Piranesi, Canova, the Nazarenes, the history about David, the landscape painting, with essays on Constable and P. H. de Valenciennes; on early 20th century modernist architecture in Monaco, Darmstadt and Vienna, with essays on Loos and Hoffmann and with a volume on the architect Joseph Maria Olbrich and the Kunstlerkolonie of Darmstadt (Rome, 1978); on iconographic issues, on the relations between painting, critics and literature, and the synthesis of arts between post-impressionism and historical avantgardes, especially on the German Roman movement artists, on Monet, Cézanne and cubism, above which she published a monograph, along with J. Nigro Covre, Il cubismo dei cubisti, ortodossi ed eretici a Parigi intorno al 1912 (Rome, 1986). Among the 20th century italian artists, she has worked especially on Gino Rossi, Carlo Carrà, Lucio Fontana and Mario Sironi, this last one in the volume Sironi. In Le muse d’oltremare. Primitivismo ed esotismo nell’arte contmporanea (Torino, 1994) she has studied the relation of various artists, from Gaugin to Picasso, going through Klimt and Matisse, with archaic and tribal culture. She has resumed her studies on Gaugin with Gaugin: un esotismo controverso (Firenze, 2007).

  • Organized by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal
  • In collaboration with: Université de Montréal