THINKING ABOUT ABSTRACT SCULPTURE
20th century sculpture in the reflections of its protagonists

Study Day organized by Stefano Esengrini and Andrea Pinotti

Scientific Committee: Cristina Baldacci, Michele Bertolini, Stefano Esengrini, Andrea Pinotti

November 13, 2013, 9.30 am – 6.00 pm

Università degli Studi di Milano
(Via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122 Milan, Italy)
Room: “Crociera Alta” (Philosophy)

http://www.pensarelascultura.com/

PROGRAM

9.30-10:00 AM – WELCOME

STEFANO ESENGRINI / ANDREA PINOTTI
Opening remarks

10.00-12:00 AM – SESSION I

10.00-10.30 AM – CLARISSA RICCI
Isamu Noguchi: Between East and West. The research of abstraction as a search of permanence

10.30-11.00 AM – STEFANO ESENGRINI
David Smith: The eidetic image and the artist’s identity

11.00-11.30 AM – GIORGIO ZANCHETTI
Consagra – Mulas. 'Fotografare l’arte' (1973). An attempt at dialectical thinking on sculpture and its photographic representation

11.30-12.00 AM – ANNA DETHERIDGE
Gianni Colombo’s mutant spaces

12.00-1.00 PM – DISCUSSION
(Moderator: MAURIZIO GUERRI)

2.30-5.00 PM – SESSION II

2.30-3.00 PM – ELIO GRAZIOLI
Donald Judd and his ‘specific objects’

3:00-3:30 PM – GIUSEPPE DI LIBERTI
‘Sculpture is mattering matter’. Spatialization of matter and visual poetry in Carl Andre

3.30-4.00 PM – CRISTINA BALDACCI
‘Language to be looked at and/or things to be read’. Language as a sculptural material in Robert Smithson

4.00-4.30 PM – MICHELE BERTOLINI
Issues of scale: Monument, object, sculpture. The experience of sculpture in Robert Morris’ writings

4.30-5.00 PM – ANDREA PINOTTI
Richard Serra: Phenomenology of the intransitive

5.00-6.00 PM – DISCUSSION
(Moderator: PATRIZIA MAGLI)