Sculpting abroad. International mobility of nineteenth-century sculptors and their work

Organized by the Department of Art History, Ghent University, and the Department of History, KULeuven Campus Kortrijk.
In collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, ESNA (European Society of Nineteenth-Century Art) and research platform XIX.

Keynote presentations by Bruno Fornari (MSK, Ghent), Antoinette Le Normand-Romain (INHA, Paris), Sura Levine (Hampshire College, Amherst, USA) and Alison Yarrington (Loughborough University, UK).

During this two-day conference, speakers will reflect upon the subject matter of the transnational mobility of sculptors and the implications for these artists and their art during the long nineteenth century. This conference aims to address the role of art criticism, the art market, exhibitions, education, commissions etc. for sculptors in an international context, and the implications for their (inter)national or local identity. The presenters will consider the theoretical and/or practical implications of (trans)nationality, travel and cultural mobility on nineteenth-century sculptors and their work.

PROGRAMME:

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

09u00-10u00: Registration and welcome with coffee/tea

10u00-10u05: Welcome by Catherine de Zegher (Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent)

10u05-10u15: Introduction by Marjan Sterckx (Professor of Art History, Ghent University)

10u15-11u00: Keynote presentation ‘Rodin: Paris, Bruxelles, Londres’ by Antoinette Le Normand-Romain

11u00-11u10: Questions and debate

11u10-11u30: Coffee/tea break

11u30-13u00: Session 'Itineraries' (Chair: Marjan Sterckx)

- 11u30-11u50: Henri de Triqueti between England and Prussia by Desiree de Chair (University of Warwick)

- 11u50-12u10: Love and Abandon: Canova’s Endymion and the formation of the 6th Duke of Devonshire’s Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth by Elyse Nelson (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

- 12u10-12u30: “Rome is far from Arizona”: Interpretive questions on American sculptors’ itineraries and their representations of Native Americans raised by American art criticism at the turn of the century in response to European artistic influences by Agathe Cabau (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

- 12u30-13u00: Questions and debate

13u00-14u00: Sandwich lunch

14u00-15u50: Session 'Nationalities' (Chair: Tom Verschaffel (Professor of Cultural History since 1750, University of Louvain))

- 14u00-14u20: Embodying Mobility in Andrew O’Connor’s Oeuvre: From Commodore John Barry to The Arrival by Clarisse Fava-Piz (University of Pittsburgh)

- 14u20-14u40: In search of a national (s)cul(p)ture, International mobility and national identity by Jana Wijnsouw (Ghent University)

- 14u40-15u00: “The right man in the right place”: foreign sculptors at work in the Netherlands by Frédérique Brinkerink (Sculpture Institute, Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen)

- 15u00-15u20: Mobility and Sculptural Practice in Italy by Martina Droth (Yale Center for British Art)

- 15u50-15u50: Questions and debate

15u50-16u10: Coffee/tea break

16u10-16u55: Keynote presentation ‘Constantin Meunier and Carl Jacobsen: Building a Contemporary Sculpture Collection at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek’ by Sura Levine

16u55-17u05: Questions and debate

17u05-18u00: Visit to the MSK sculpture collection, introduction by Cathérine Verleysen (Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent)

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

08u30-09u00: Welcome

09u00-09u45: Keynote presentation ‘“Une intacte véracité”, réflexions sur la sculpture ethnographique belge au 19e siècle’ by Bruno Fornari

09u45-09u55: Questions and debate

09u55-10u15: Coffee/tea break

10u15-12u05: Session 'Careers' (Chair to be confirmed)

- 10u15-10u35: Constantin Meunier. Les succès tardifs, un parcours européen by Francisca Vandepitte (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles)

- 10u35-10u55: Julieta de França, a deceptive career path between Paris and Brazil by Coralie de Souza Vernay (École du Louvre)

- 10u55-11u15: Le prince Troubetzkoy dans l’Europe de la sculpture by Nicolas Laurent (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre)

- 11u15-11u35: An Italian sculptor-émigré in Paris: the case of Medardo Rosso by Sharon Hecker (Independent scholar)

- 11u35-12u05: Questions and debate

12u05-12u45: Sandwich lunch

12u45-15u15: Session 'Practices' (Chair: Linda Van Santvoort (Professor of Architectural History and Heritage, Ghent University))

- 12u45-13u05: Forging abroad in the nineteenth century by Lynn Catterson (Columbia University)

- 13u05-13u25: The international peregrinations of the 1889 bronze Vase created by French sculptor Jean-René Ringel d’Illzach and cast by the Compagnie des Bronzes de Bruxelles by Anne-Lise Desmas (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)

- 13u25-13u45: The “marble” Issue: Two Italian 19th Century Sculptors in Bogotá, Colombia by Carolina Carrasco Vanegas (Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (IIPC-UNSAM), Argentina)

- 13u45-14u05: Sculptez malin, Sculptez italien. Préjugés et protectionnismes autour des sculpteurs et mouleurs italiens en France au XIX° siècle by Barbara Musetti (École du Louvre/Université Paris 1)

- 14u05-14u35: Questions and debate

14u35-14u55: Coffee/tea break

14u55-15u40: Keynote presentation ‘Moving marble – Anglo-Italian sculptural exchanges’ by Alison Yarrington

15u40-15u50: Questions and debate

15u50-16u00: Closing remarks by Tom Verschaffel

This conference will be held at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, for all additional questions contact: sculpture.conferenceugent.be.

Please register through: http://www.sculptingabroad2016.ugent.be/