Decolonizing Italian Culture

Decolonizing Italian Visual and Material Culture: From Nation Building to Now.
Research Unit of the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck-Institute for Art History

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Nello spazio creato dall'installazione di DAAR - Sandro Petti e Sandi Hilal, abbiamo parlato di nazionalismo transmedialità, opacità, partendo da medaglie e bozzetti che hanno veicolato la retorica coloniale italiana @BiblHertz @crmnbelmonte @GiuliaBeatrice7 @sara_vith

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Stamattina, durante il workshop dedicato alle collezioni dell'ex museo coloniale del @museocivilta abbiamo presentato i primi risultati delle ricerche condotte nelle collezioni del museo, esaminando gli oggetti nella loro dimensione materiale e visuale...

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

...Nello spazio creato dall'installazione di DAAR - Sandro Petti e Sandi Hilal, abbiamo parlato di nazionalismo transmedialità, opacità, partendo da medaglie e bozzetti che hanno veicolato la retorica coloniale italiana @BiblHertz @crmnbelmonte @GiuliaBeatrice7 @sara_vith

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Stamattina, durante il workshop dedicato alle collezioni dell'ex museo coloniale del @muciv, abbiamo presentato i primi risultati delle ricerche condotte nelle collezioni del museo, esaminando gli oggetti nella loro dimensione materiale e visuale...

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Throwback to the amazing lecture by prof. W. D. Mignolo, that we co-organised together with @museocivilta followed by DAAR's decolonial activation...

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Tomorrow, our fellows Giulia Beatrice @GiuliaBeatrice7 and Sara Vitacca @sara_vith will present their research at the interdisciplinary conference "Ugly Modernity: its Unseen Sides". Follow their presentation online!
https://t.co/wbkJE5WU7x

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Carmen Belmonte and Giulia Beatrice presented our Research Unit at the "Art and Power" summer school organized by the Bibliotheca Hertziana @BiblHertz, the department of Art History of the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, sponsered by the Getty Foundation @GettyMuseum

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Don't miss our RS with Ting Chang (University of Nottingham): "Imperial Games: Visuality, Tactility and Synaesthesia" on Tuesday, May 23 at 11 AM, in presence and online!
https://t.co/IyTMxAFOIu

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Don't miss our RS with Elvan Zabunyan - From the Epic Poem to the Postcolonial History of Art, Fragments of a Reflection - at the @BiblHertz and on vimeo! https://t.co/LDGODYWX74

[Bibliotheca Hertziana @BiblHertz]

Hal Foster looks back at the last few decades of modernist studies from a personal perspective, touching on the challenges of both contemporary art and decolonial critique. 🎥👇https://t.co/qlCWwdY0cf

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

We are delighted to share more about the work @KendraLyimo is doing for our research group https://t.co/G1cuAOW39w

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

During her time at the Bibliotheca Hertiziana she hopes to explore the impact of Italian colonialism in Africa pictured in the work of Ethiopian artists.

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

We are proud to introduce our new intern: @KendraLyimo. Kendra Lyimo is a third year Art History student at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame. Her research focuses on multiculturalism and identity in contemporary art of Africa and the African Diaspora.

[Sara Vitacca @sara_vith]

Intense research day at @MuseoCivilta : unraveling the history and iconography of Italian colonialism through medals and material culture, with the precious help of the museum team and of our intern @KendraLyimo! New project in the framework of the research unit @DecolonizingBH

[Sara Vitacca @sara_vith]

Sports, cafés chantants, balls, fairs, amusement parks...their artistic representation and the way they shaped italian multiple and contradictory identities in term of class, race and gender...send us your proposal and share the call! https://t.co/Obsgy4Yl12

[Sara Vitacca @sara_vith]

🎭 CFP : New Leisure for a New Nation. Art and Entertainment in Italy, from Nation-building to Liberation (1861-1945) 🎭 we are waiting for your contributions at @BiblHertz ! https://t.co/Obsgy4YSQA

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Vi aspettiamo stasera al Trenta Formiche per la presentazione del numero "Giù le maschere" della rivista "Zapruder" al quale ha partecipato la nostra fellow Giulia Beatrice 👏 @BiblHertz

[Zapruder / SIM @rivistazapruder]

📆 Ci vediamo alle 19 a Trenta formiche a Roma per parlare di “Giù le maschere“, il numero 59 di «Zapruder».

Non mancare!

https://t.co/TViKgtk7hJ

@30Formiche

[Decolonizing Italian Culture @DecolonizingBH]

Two days of discoveries and discussions at the workshop "Collezioni in tumulto/Collections in turmoil" @MuseoCivilta with artist Adelita Husni-Bey

[Anna Dumont @AnnaAMDumont]

The many sweet hounds of Giuseppe Mazza’s grand bronze reliefs of the life of San Domenico in SS Giovanni e Paolo.

[Carmen Belmonte @crmnbelmonte]

Questa settimana su @LeftAvvenimenti la prima recensione del mio libro "Arte e colonialismo in Italia" @MarsilioEditori
@FulvioCervini