Decentering Transnationality. The Impact of Latin American Artists in Post-War Europe

Workshop

  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Mar 3, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 4, 2025 12:00 AM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/7475586652?omn=67148978566)
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
  • Region: Abroad
  • Topic: Discussion and debate formats, lectures
Decentering Transnationality. The Impact of Latin American Artists in Post-War Europe
Alberto Greco, "Albertus Grecus XXIII", 1962 (Roma), photographed by Claudio Abate
From the early decades of the twentieth century, Europe – followed by North America after 1945 – became the nexus of migratory flows of artists, objects, ideas, and cultural agents, particularly from Latin America. Yet, while the presence of Latin American artists in the United Kingdom and France has been the subject of extensive and ongoing research projects, the same is not true for other European countries eschewing the powerful axis of Paris - London - New York. The 2-day workshop welcomes research contributions that decenter such canonization of the transnational to recover histories that involve other places of arrival and a new polycentric understanding. What was the impact of artists settling at the so-called margins of Europe? How did they contribute to an ongoing international dialogue crossing the European continent and a process of hybridization of local narratives?

Surveying the ferment that developed within a morediverse network, the workshop aims to decenter transnational art histories thathave privileged certain sites of interest. It also strives to contribute to adiverse, more encompassing, understanding of the transnational and amultifaceted yet global modernity.

While scholarly research hasfocused on mobility, mapping, and circulation, we aim to shift the focus to theemergence of multilayered identities by investigating the reception of artists,objects, ideas, and cultural agents in European countries other than maincenters. For example, in Amsterdam artists from Latin America developedartistic strategies and independent initiatives that played an important rolein the experimental art scene in the Netherlands and abroad. In Italy, thearrival of performance art from Argentina found a favorable reception in theRome-based experimental theatre of the 1960s and 1970s, anticipating laterperformative works. These countries, together with the GDR and Eastern Europehave largely been left out of transnational studies concerning contacts andjourneys with and from Latin America. Through an examination of key figuresfrom Latin America and their impact on local European art scenes, this workshopwill shed light on unexplored pathways/networks ofglobal artistic exchange.

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Program

(please note that each paper will last 20 minutesfollowed by 20 minutes discussion)

March 3, 2025

14:00 – 14:15 Welcome by Lara Demori, ElizeMazadiego, and Felipe Martinez

14:15 – 15:00 Aleca Le Blanc (University ofCalifornia, Riverside)

“The Reinvention of Ulm”

15:00 – 15:45 Claudia Cendales Paredes (Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen)

“Between Bogotá and Munich: Godula Buchholz and LatinAmerican art in the 1960s”

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45 Annabel Ruckdeschel (University ofGiessen)

“Exhibiting Printmaking in Exile. Chilean Artists inthe GDR after 1973”

16:45 – 17:30 Ine Engels (Ghent University)

“Disentangling the Web. Latin American Artists andVideo Art in Belgium in the 1970s”

17:30 – 18:15 Anamaria Garzon Mantilla (Universityof Essex)

“Ancestralista Abstraction and Mobility inEcuadorian Modern Art”

18:15 – 18:30 Final remarks

18:30: Happy hour and informal discussion


March 4, 2025

09:30– 10:15 Denis Viva (Università di Trento)

“Reverse Trajectories: Francisco Smythe and GonzaloDíaz Cuevas in Florence”

10:15 – 11:00Paulina Caro Troncoso (Bibliotheca Hertziana)

“The Influence of Roberto Matta’s Work in Post-WarItalian Art, 1949 – 1954”

11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00 Francesca d’ Andrea (Università degliStudi di Genova)

“Contemporary Cuban Painting: Rome Welcomes theRevolution”

12:00 – 12:45Laura Moure Cecchini (Università degli Studi di Padova)

“Buenos Aires – Venecia: Antonio Berni in the 1960sand the Antinomies of Realism”

12:45 – 13:30 Michele d’Aurizio, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

“Jorge Eduardo Eielson: From Perù to the Moon, viaItaly”

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 15:30 Guided tour of the BibliothecaHertziana


Scientific Organization: Lara Demori, Bibliotheca Hertziana incollaboration with Elize Mazadiego, University of Bern and Felipe Martinez, LeidenUniversity

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