Event

Fabio Mauri Study Day

The Center for Italian Modern Art is pleased to present a Study Day dedicated to postwar Italian avant-garde artist, Fabio Mauri (1926-2009). The program will examine varied aspects of Mauri's wide-ranging artistic career and will also include the recreation of one of Mauri's performances.

FABIO MAURI STUDY DAY
at the
Center for Italian Modern Art
May 9, 2014
10am 6pm

PROGRAM

10:00-10:30am
Registration and coffee

10.30am 10.45am
Welcome
Heather Ewing, Executive Director, Center for Italian Modern Art

Introduction: Fabio Mauri and Fortunato Depero at CIMA
Laura Mattioli, President and Founder, Center for Italian Modern Art

Session 1: 10:45-12:45pm
Theaters of Memory: A Context for Mauri
Norman Kleeblatt Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish
Museum, New York

Mauri and Art and Politics in Italy in the 1960s and '70s
Fabio Belloni Fellow, The Center for Italian Modern Art

"Language is War": Word and/versus Image in Fabio Mauri
Andrea Cortellessa Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Discussion with Carlos Basualdo, Respondent
Curator of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art

12:45-2:30pm
Tours of the Depero/Mauri Installation by CIMA Fellows
Raffaele Bedarida and Fabio Belloni

Lunch

12:45-5:00pm
Performance: Fabio Mauri's L'Espressionista (1982)
Luca Pignagnoli, actor

Session 2: 2:30-5:00pm
Mauri and Other Screen Practices
Riccardo Venturi Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris

Uncle Fabio: Prehistory as History
Sebastiano Mauri Studio Fabio Mauri, Rome

Discussion with Carlos Basualdo, Respondent
5:30-7:00pm Reception

This event will be recorded and photographed. By attending, you give the Center for Italian Modern Art permission to use your image in educational, marketing and publicity materials, including on the italianmodernart.org website.

Thanks to our generous sponsors:

Giovanni Rana Pastificio & Cucina.
http://www.rananyc.com

Nino Franco presented by Terlato Wines
http://www.terlatowines.com/brands/italy/nino-franco