ISBN 979-1221054569

Abstract:

Representing and Interpreting Abstraction Today encompasses a variety of opinions, studies, and research regarding the heterogeneity of ways to conceive and represent abstraction in contemporary times. Through two main thematic threads – one concerning representation and, more broadly, painting, and the other pertaining to the semantic and interpretative implications of the concept of abstraction in technology – the timeliness of the topic in recent years is underscored.

Contributors: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Pamela Breda, Alessandro Ferraro, Francesca Gavin, Peter Halley, Travis Jeppesen, Martin Mugar, Elena Giulia Rossi, Pamela C. Scorzin, Isabel Wünsche.

Author:

Alessandro Ferraro (1990), Ph.D., teaches “History of Exhibitions and Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Times” at the University of Genoa. His research areas mainly concern the history of abstraction and the relations between curatorial practices and exhibition history. He has been a research fellow at various European institutions and foundations related to contemporary art (Hans Arp and V. Stiftung, Berlin; Hilma af Klint Archiv – Moderna Museet, Stockholm among the others), he is currently a research fellow at the University of Parma for the PRIN PNRR ‘Straniere: la ricezione delle arti e delle culture extra-occidentali in Italia dal 1945 al 2000’. Currently he is working on the edited volume titled “A partire da una mostra. Presenze artistiche internazionali a Genova negli anni Settanta”. His first monography “L’astrazione come condizione storica” is going to be published soon by Mimesis editorial group.