10 Jun 2019

Guest. Massimo Maiorino

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10June 2019

Orario

18:00

Museo Novecento

Free admission subject to availability

The Guest cycle is back with a new appointment, which on Monday 10 June at 6 pm sees the art historian Massimo Maiorino present his book The Morandi device. Art and art criticism in Italy 1934-2018 (Quodlibet, 2019) together with the artistic director of the Museum, Sergio Risaliti.

The presentation is part of the calendar of events that served as a corollary to the monographic “Exit. Morandi” in progress on the first floor of the museum, curated by Maria Cristina Bandera and Sergio Risaliti. The figure of Giorgio Morandi, his presence / absence in the plots of Italian art and criticism of the twentieth century, is the center of Maiorino’s recent volume. A line of research that reconstructs and highlights, through the theoretical lens of the “device” borrowed from Deleuze, the voices and different perspectives, stories and genealogies that Morandi’s work has solicited. What emerges from the examination of the heterogeneity of readings and hypotheses – expressed through a plurality of languages ​​that oscillate between word and image, restoring the breadth of the art system – is the protean vitality of the Morandian work and the inexhaustible relevance of Italian artist and his work.

The figure of Giorgio Morandi, his presence / absence in the plots of Italian art and criticism of the twentieth century, is the focus of Massimo Maiorino’s recent volume The Morandi device. Art and art criticism in Italy 1934-2018 (Quodlibet, 2019). A line of research that reconstructs and highlights, through the theoretical lens of the “device” borrowed from Deleuze, the voices and different perspectives, stories and genealogies that Morandi’s work has solicited. What emerges from the examination of the heterogeneity of readings and hypotheses – expressed through a plurality of languages ​​that oscillate between word and image, restoring the breadth of the art system – is the protean vitality of the Morandian work and the inexhaustible relevance of Italian artist and his work.

Massimo Maiorino

He is a research doctor in Methods and methodologies of archaeological, historical-artistic and territorial systems research (2015) and a fellow at the DISPAC of the University of Salerno. Historian and art critic, he recently collaborated with the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and has published essays and contributions on Italian artistic experiences of the twentieth century, studying with particular attention the relationship between art, art criticism and exhibition systems. . Among the latest publications is the monograph The Morandi device. Art and criticism in Italy 1934-2018 (Quodlibet, 2019) and the essays Invitation to travel and Time is out of joint, or how the National Gallery has been rearranged in the time of timelessness, in Time is Out of Joint (Galleria Nazionale d ‘Modern Art, 2019). In 2019 he curated the exhibition Poor abstraction at the Menna / Binga Archive in Rome. Since 2019 he has been a member of the Italian Society for the History of Art Criticism.

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