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Silvia Bottinelli

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2011-2012 Office Hours

Mondays, 12:00-1:00pm
SMFA Main Building, Room B311

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Degrees: Ph.D. University of Pisa, Italy, 2008

Expertise: Site specific Sculpture and Public Art, European Art in the aftermath of WWII, Art in Italy after Fascism, 20th century Art and Design, Contemporary Art, Theories and Methods.

Selected Scholarship and Publications

Books

  1. seleARTE: An Open Window to the World (Lucca: Pacini Fazzi and Fondazione Ragghianti Edizioni, 2010). Refereed

This monograph analyzes the role of the art and design history magazine seleARTE in popularizing international culture, in the context of Cold War Italy. The multidisciplinary approach to the subject allows an understanding of political, theoretical and cultural aspects, examined through the lens of Art and Design History, Media Studies, Museology, and Cultural Studies.

  1. A forgotten Award. The Fiorino Collection at the Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Pitti (Florence: Edifir, 2007). Refereed

Not simply the catalogue of the Pitti Palace Contemporary Art collection, this monograph discusses the history and reception of the Fiorino award (1950-1978), through which the Pitti Palace formed the first nucleus of 250 pieces of its contemporary section. The Fiorino award was based on the example of Fascist Trade Union exhibitions, giving artists of diverse background the chance to show their more recent work. The award received harsh criticism from artists and intellectuals during the 1970s, a period of prevalent institutional critique.
Chapters

  1. with Cristelle Baskins, “La Casa Va con la Città: Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Arts, story of a post-war exhibition”, The Triumph Of Marriage, ed. by Cristelle Baskins (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, forthcoming 2011)
  2. “The Popularization of Art History in Italy in the aftermath of Fascism”, Emporium, parole e figure, ed. Massimo Ferretti (Pisa: Edizioni della Scuola Normale Superiore, 2009), pp. 555-588
  3. “Sopra le costruzioni umane. Reflections on Contemporary Art Geographies”, Sopra le costruzioni umane, ed. Fabiana Campanella (San Miniato: Titivillus 2007): 13-33
  4. “Sculptors and the Environment since the 1960s: typologies and examples”, in Architettura, risparmio energetico, energie rinnovabili. Un nuovo paradigma estetico, ed. Giovanna Gioli. (Florence: Regione, 2004), published electronically on CD-ROM

Essays
“Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti (1910-1987) and the Idea of Pupularization from the 1950s to the 1980s”, in Predella, 10.28 (2011), pp. 62-75.

  1. “Italy and the world: International models of art policies in  seleARTE”, Annali di Critica d’arte, 4.4 (2008), pp. 401-458 Refereed
  2. with Claudia Lamberti, and Matteo Mattei, “Projecting the Space of Dreams. Niki De Saint Phalle’s Tarots’ Garden between Art and Architecture”, Bollettino Ingegneri, 37.10 (2007): 10-22.
  3. “seleARTE. The birth of a journal”, Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte, 40.91-92 (2007): 177-186. Refereed.
  4. “The International Biennale of Graphic Arts in Florence (1968-1978)”, Exibart.studi, 1.6 (2007). Refereed.

Exhibition Catalogues (edited by)

  1. Young artists’ Biennal, ed. Silvia Bottinelli and Sergio Risaliti (Pisa: Bandecchi e Vivaldi, 2005)
  2. Outbound. Out of Common Places, ed. Silvia Bottinelli (Florence: Gli Ori, 2004)
  3. Silvia Bottinelli, StART, Tuscan Artists since the 1950s (Vinci: Terre del Rinascimento 2003)

Videos (editor)

  1. Lorenzo Pizzanelli, Guided Tour to Ghosts, ed. Silvia Bottinelli, book + DVD (Livorno: Sillabe 2005)
  2. Rosario Gennaro, Traveling in the Land of the Renaissance, ed. Silvia Bottinelli, (Vinci: Terre del Rinascimento 2007), published electronically on DVD

Curatorial experience:

Main Curatorial Interests: Video Art, Public Art, Site Specificity, Installation Art.
2002-2010, Museo Leonardiano, Vinci (Florence)

  1. New Geographies, Performance and site specific project by Stalker, Empoli (Florence) 2010
  2. Pizzanelli, Guided tour to ghosts, performance and video, Villa Medicea Cerreto Guidi (Florence), 2006
  3. Outbound, out of common places, Villa Medicea Cerreto Guidi (Florence), 2004
  4. stART, ArCo project, 2003

2003, MART, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto and Trento:

  1. Mountain: art, science, myth
  2. VAF award
  3. Skin Deep

Courses taught

FAHS 0046 01
“Sculpture In-Site": Land Art, Installation Art and Public Art since 1960

FAHS 0045 01
Arte Povera, 1962-72: sculpture as energy, process, experience

 
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