Spotkanie w języku angielskim prowadzi dr. Karolina Łabowicz-Dymanus

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Unblocking the Blocs. Intertwined Art Practices in Divided Europe (1956-1972)
The seminar is based on an upcoming book on intertwined art practices and their critical reception in Cold War Europe within a polycentric area extended to the two German republics, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Italy. Selected artists and art professionals from these countries will be examined as active agents to highlight the productive outcomes of the so called "cultural Cold War" within divided Europe. In this framework, art practices will be analysed not in "spite of" the cultural Cold War, but precisely because of it. A particular emphasis will be placed on international art exhibitions and publications as hotspots of cross-border encounters and negotiations, as public arenas for remote critical receptions, misconceptions and constructions of the "Other" across the Iron Curtain.


SHORT BIO
Matteo Bertelé is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He is executive director of the Summer School "Contemporary art and curatorship: from documenta to the Biennale" (Ca' Foscari and Universität Kassel). He is director of the academic journal "Venezia Arti" and deputy director of the Center for Studies in Russian Art. He is Associate scholar at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and researcher within the project "On the Eve of Revolution. The East German Artist in the 1980s" at the Getty Research Institute. Along with articles and essays in international books and journals ("Getty Research Journal", "Experiment", "Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte", "The Hermitage Magazine", "Esamizdat", "Il capitale culturale"), he authored the monograph Arte sovietica alla Biennale di Venezia (1924-1962).