Conference #1 on the Art of scribbling and doodling with Francesca Alberti and Diane Bodart
Conference #1 of the cycle around the exhibition Scribbling and Doodling Thursday 17 March 2022 at 6.30 pm Michel Piccoli Room, Villa Medici Conference in Italian (no translation) Duration: 1 hour
Free event, limited number of seats. Advance booking required. SOLD OUT
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In parallel with the exhibition Scribbling and Doodling. From Leonardo da Vinci to Cy Twombly, presented until the 22nd May 2022 at the Villa Medici, a series of six conferences is organised, inviting several art history, philosophy and anthropology scholars to share their researches the practice of scribbling and doodling.
For this first conference, which inaugurates the cycle of encounters, Villa Medici is organising an original dialogue between the two curators of the exhibition: Francesca Alberti (Director of the Department of Art History at the French Academy in Rome) and Diane Bodart (Professor at Columbia University).
Experimental, transgressive, regressive or liberating… What function can be attributed to “scribbling” in the process of artistic creation? Can we understand the history of art through these graphic gestures, which are often relegated to the back of canvases and the margins of drawing books?
The two curators and art historians will review the genesis of the exhibition project co-produced with the Beaux-Arts de Paris which, bringing together in Rome nearly 150 original works from the Renaissance to the present day, invites unprecedented comparisons between masters of early modernity and modern and contemporary artists.
Highlighting the achrony of these drawings that defy the categories of art history, their thinking places the practice of doodling within the artistic creation.
SPEAKERS
Francesca Alberti
Francesca Alberti is the Director of the Department of Art History at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, as well as professor of Art History at the University of Tours and the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance. Her research focuses on the visual culture of the first modern era in art, as well as art theory, and the practice and culture of laughter in the Early Modern period. She is the author of La Peinture facétieuse:Du rire sacré de Corrège aux fables burlesques de Tintoret (Paris, 2016) and co-editor of two volumes: Rire en images à la Renaissance (Turnhout, 2018) and Penser l’étrangeté, L’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance italienne entre bizarrerie, extravagance et singularité (Rennes, 2012). Francesca Alberti was a Fellow at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici (2014-2015), Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia University (2016), grant holder of the Centre Allemand d’histoire de l’art à Paris (2013), as well as a member of the research council for the Fontainebleau Festival of Art History (2016 and 2021) and the Rendez-vous de l’Histoire in Blois (2020).
Diane Bodart
Diane Bodart is David Rosand Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History at Columbia University. She was educated in Art History at the University La Sapienza in Rome and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. The recipient of fellowships from the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici, the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, and the Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) in Florence, she was teaching at the University of Poitiers before moving to Columbia. Her research focuses on the arts theory and practice in Italy and in the territories of imperial Spain in the early modern period. She is the author of Tiziano e Federico II Gonzaga (Rome, 1998) and Pouvoirs du portrait sous les Habsbourg d’Espagne (Paris, 2011), and has co-edited François Lemée. Traité des statues (Weimar, 2012); Rire en images à la Renaissance (Turnhout, 2018); Wearing Images (2018); Le grand âge et ses œuvres ultimes (Rennes, 2020).
NEXT CONFERENCES OF THE SCRIBBLING AND DOODLING CYCLE
Wednesday 30 March 2022 Tim Ingold (Anthropologist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Aberdeen, UK) Conference in English with Italian translation
Thursday 14 April 2022 Mauro Mussolin (architect and art historian, professor at the Università di Chieti Pescara, ITA) Conference in Italian
Thursday 21 April 2022 Vincent Debaene (historian of literature and anthropology, professor at the University of Geneva, CH) Conference in French
Thursday 5 May 2022 : CONFERENCE CANCELLED Anne Montfort-Tanguy (curator at the Cabinet d’art graphique du Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR)
Thursday 19 May 2022 Philippe-Alain Michaud (curator in charge of the film collection of the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR) Conference in French
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
To access the conferences, participants are kindly requested to present their valid Covid Pass and to wear a FFP2 mask during the whole conference.
