L'arte fuori dal museo • Book launch
CURATED BY
Elisabetta Cristallini
SPEECHES
Piero Gilardi and Roberto Pinto
02.02.2009
The book outlines a compelling journey through the folds of the vast phenomenon of environmental art, giving voice to key figures in contemporary art: artists, critics, curators, directors of museums and foreign academies, university professors and young researchers, as well as experts in the field.
Rich in critical reflections, firsthand accounts, references to both Italian and international experiences, and images, the text explores the interrelations between artwork/public/place and the processes of hybridization between the signs of art and those of the territory, nature, and the city, revealing the disciplinary and methodological crossovers of today's art.
The lively succession of different experiences and perspectives makes this volume a work that delves into the heart of the most current cultural debate. The tension of art to emerge from the protected enclaves of major museums—with its complex operational practices and diverse design actions—to conquer external spaces, the territories of everyday life and the environment as a physical, mental, and sociological place, is the underlying theme around which institutions and individual actors of contemporary art engage in dialogue.
With the contribution of Fondazione Cariplo
Bio
Elisabetta Cristallini, contemporary art critic and historian, is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and teaches at the Faculty of Cultural Heritage Conservation at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia. She was the coordinator of the 19th PhD cycle in "Memoria e materia delle opere d’arte" at the same university and scientific head of the research unit for PRIN-MIUR 2002 and 2005, focusing on the enhancement of small and medium contemporary art collections which, scattered throughout the Tuscia territory, escape the legitimized system of major museums.
She collaborated for several years with the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome and has designed and curated significant national and international exhibitions. Her bibliography includes monographic studies on contemporary artists, texts centered on the intersections between art and architecture in certain Roman construction sites during the interwar period—based on the hypothesis of a program involving public commissioning of artworks and their integrated destination within architecture—as well as volumes concerning the connections between art and power, the art system from the 1930s to the present day, and themes relating to the relationship between art/nature and art/city.