I Lunedi dell’arte. Fotografia

I Lunedì dell’arte. Fotografia: Visione e Missione II
with Walter Moser, May 26, 2014.

Assistant curator at the Wien Museum and later curator at the Wien Cinema Museum, Walter Moser is cheif curator of photograhy at the Albertina Museum, Wien since 2005.
In his lecture entitled To see more more closely: insights into the photographic collection at the Albertina, Moser traces a brief history of the establishment of the photographic collection, of one of most prestigious European institution and talks about his curatorial activity. He also shows a selection of his past directed exhibitions and Blow-up Antonioni’s film classic and photography a show he curated in 2014.

I Lunedì dell’arte. Fotografia: Visione e Missione II
with Paul Di Felice, May 19 2014.

In his lectures entitled “From ‘Café crème magazine’ to the ‘Mois de la photographie’ thirty years of contemporary photography in Luxenburg”, Paul Di Felice Professor of Art History at the University of Luxemburg and co-director of the European Month of Photography and co-editor of Café Crème édition, recalls the creation of the first, pioneering cultural programs to promote and circulate contemporary photography in Luxemburg. He also discusses the establishment of some permanent photography collections in his country.

I Lunedì dell’arte. Fotografia: Visione e Missione II
with Nili Goren, May 5 2014.

Professor of History of Photography at the a Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Nili Goren war curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TAMA) from 1999 to 2015.
Goren presents Israelian Contemporary: From landscape to land-escape a discussion of contemporary Israeli photography which includes both landscape images as well as various modes of representation of local places including military outposts, homely environments as well as natural scenery.
This is the first comprehensive lecture on the history of Israeli contemporary photography held in Italy and is completed with insights useful for a theorical consideration of the category of landscape.
The Israelian curator also illustrates the birth and promotion of the photography permanent collection at TAMA.

I Lunedì dell’arte. Fotografia: Visione e Missione I
with Simon Baker, April 15 2013.

Former Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Nottingham and later international Art and Photography curator at Tate, Simon Baker talks about Photography at Tate and illustrates the guide lines and concepts that inform his selection of photographic works for the Tate permanent collection. He also explains the museum cultural activities to support and promote the photographic collection of one of the world best known art museum. Special guest of the evening the photographer Elliot Erwitt.

I Lunedì dell’arte. Fotografia: Visione e Missione I
with Carlo Arturo Quintavalle, April 8 2013.

Former Full Professor of Art History at Parma University and Art contributor for the “Corriere della Sera“, newspaper, Carlo Arturo Quintavalle is the founder of the Centro Studi Archivio della Comunicazione a Parma, one of the world larger public art, photography, graphic design, and visual arts collection. In his lecture he recalls the onset and formation of this important public collection established in 1964 and the opening of the photography section which numbers over 9 million photographs. This is a document of great importance and relevance for the history of Italian photography narrated by the illustrious scholar and it also includes a discussion on the role of national public collections versus private collections, as well as Quintavalle’s call to support and promote Italian photography public collections.