Università Roma Tre

The course intends to retrace the art from the Sixties to the present day through the analysis of some exhibitions that have marked crucial moments of renewal, both from the viewpoint of the elaboration of the exhibition formats, and with regard to the critical debate.
The first part of the course will be devoted to an in-depth examination of exhibitions held internationally between 1968 and the early 1970s, with the focus on the renewal of artistic practices (between process, performativity and dematerialization) and the role and methodologies of the critics (from the crisis of interpretation to the emergence of the figure of the curator, with the progressive affirmation of a new dimension of “exhibition writing”).
The second part of the course will focus on the analysis of exhibitions reflecting the social, economic, political and ecological changes of the global era. It will analyze curatorial events and strategies, as well as their contribution in defining new artistic geographies and in decolonizing narratives, with a strong impact on the sociocultural imagery of the contemporary world - starting with "Le magiciens de la terre", to get to curatorial projects of the current artistic scene.
Subject of reflection will also be the reenactment of the exhibitions, i.e. the revival of historical exhibitions as a curatorial practice at the center of the current debate and curatorial practices and the relationship between curatorial writing and Archive practice.

1) B. O’Doherty, Inside the White Cube. L’ideologia dello spazio espositivo, Johan & Levy, Milano 2000

2) M. Majorino, M. G. Mancini, F. Zanella (a cura di), Archivi esposti. Teorie e pratiche dell’arte contemporanea, Quodlibet, Macerata 2022

3) One among these:
- R. Pinto, Nuove geografie artistiche. Le mostre al tempo della globalizzazione, Postmedia, Milano 2012

- D. Balzer, Curatori d’assalto, Johan & Levy, Milano 2016

- A. Stazzone, Harald Szeemann. Appunti sulla vita di un sognatore, Fausto Lupetti Editore, Bologna 2019

- L. Conte, F. Gallo (a cura di), Costellazioni della Performance Art in Italia 1965-1982, Silvana, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) 2024

Not attending
They will integrate with a text or more texts indicated in the bibliography. The texts must be agreed with the Professor.