Books by Francesco Guzzetti
English edition of the book on Emilio Tadini. The book revolves around the figure of the Italian ... more English edition of the book on Emilio Tadini. The book revolves around the figure of the Italian artist and intellectual Emilio Tadini. A prolific painter and writer, Tadin still deserves to receive the broader recognition as a leading figure in Italian postwar and contemporary art and culture. The monograph especially focuses on a moment in Tadini's career, in which specific interests in reassessing the tenets of painting and investigating aspects of visuality through photography and painting emerged. In this respect, Tadini proves to be an outstanding figure in the expanded field of re-mediation, which was distinctive of the visual arts between the 1960s and 1970s.
The book revolves around the figure of the Italian artist and intellectual Emilio Tadini. A proli... more The book revolves around the figure of the Italian artist and intellectual Emilio Tadini. A prolific painter and writer, Tadin still deserves to receive the broader recognition as a leading figure in Italian postwar and contemporary art and culture. The monograph especially focuses on a moment in Tadini's career, in which specific interests in reassessing the tenets of painting and investigating aspects of visuality through photography and painting emerged. In this respect, Tadini proves to be an outstanding figure in the expanded field of re-mediation, which was distinctive of the visual arts between the 1960s and 1970s.
Catalogue of the first retrospective exhibition on the Italian artist Mario Schifano held in a pu... more Catalogue of the first retrospective exhibition on the Italian artist Mario Schifano held in a public institution in the US. The exhibition revolved around Schifano's early practice between 1960 and 1965, with special focus on the artist's multifaceted connections with the New York art scene and American culture in general.
Examination of the early practice of the Italian painter Ennio Morlotti within the broader artist... more Examination of the early practice of the Italian painter Ennio Morlotti within the broader artistic and cultural context in Milan before, during and right after WWII.
Exhibition catalogue. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, August 28 - December 8, 2... more Exhibition catalogue. The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, August 28 - December 8, 2019. Exhibition focusing on the practice of drawing and printmaking of Arte Povera through a selection of works on paper by the artists Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari and Jannis Kounellis, spanning the time from 1960 to 1987, selected from the Olnick Spanu Collection. Exhibition organized by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation and The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz.
Exhibition catalogue. New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura/Italian Cultural Institute, May 9-Ju... more Exhibition catalogue. New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura/Italian Cultural Institute, May 9-June 12, 2017. On the occasion of the official celebration for the 60th anniversay of the signature of the Treaties of Rome, the exhibition is meant to celebrate the artistic community binding the European countries that signed the Treaties, namely Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Promoted under the auspices of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations, as well as the official Consulates and Embassies of the six countries, the exhibition gathered remarkable pieces of oustanding representatives of the Europan art in the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as Carla Accardi, Karel Appel, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Théo Kerg, Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, and Louis Van Lint.
Exhibition catalogue. Lecco, Musei Civici, Palazzo delle Paure, January 16-April 3, 2016. The exh... more Exhibition catalogue. Lecco, Musei Civici, Palazzo delle Paure, January 16-April 3, 2016. The exhibition retraced the sources and context of the early career of the painter Ennio Morlotti in Milan by parsing landmark pieces by the major representatives of the landscape painting in interwar Italian art as well as some masterpieces of the art of the late 19th-early 20th centuries which was more successful in Milan during the time of Morlotti's training as a painter. Alongside Giorgio Morandi and Ennio Morlotti, Luigi Bartolini, Renato Birolli, Umberto Boccioni, Aldo Carpi, Carlo Carrà, Raffaele De Grada, Filippo de Pisis, Antonio Donghi, Leonardo Dudrevilli, Achille Funi, Emilio Gola, Achille Lega, Umberto Lilloni, Mario Mafai, Piero Marussig, Ottone Rosai, Mario Sironi, Armando Spadini, Arturo Tosi, Federico Zandomeneghi were among the most remarkable exhibited authors.
Articles by Francesco Guzzetti
Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte, 2020
Reconstruction and the analysis of the exhibition and catalogue Processi di Pensiero Visualizzati... more Reconstruction and the analysis of the exhibition and catalogue Processi di Pensiero Visualizzati, organized and edited by Jean-Christophe Ammann at Kunstmuseum Luzern in 1970.
Master Drawings, 2020
Conversation with Giuseppe Penone on his drawing practice.
Studi di Memofonte, 2018
The article deals with the earliest version of "Documentazione di interferenza umana nella gravit... more The article deals with the earliest version of "Documentazione di interferenza umana nella gravitazione universale" (Documentation of Human Interference in Universal Gravity), a photographic work made by Giovanni Anselmo and presented for the first time as an edition at the Galleria Multipli in Turin, in 1971. By contextualizing the work within the artist’s practice at the turn of the 1960s and the early 1970s as much as comparing it with the work of international conceptual artists, such as Jan Dibbets and Douglas Huebler, the essay aims to shed light on Anselmo’s endeavor to reassess the tenets of photography as a medium as well as to envision a new kind of spectatorship, thus paving the way to major developments of Italian art in the 1970s.
Master Drawings, 2019
In the article I focus on "Bollini" ("Stickers") and "Cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione", tw... more In the article I focus on "Bollini" ("Stickers") and "Cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione", two groups of drawings made by the Arte Povera artist Alighiero Boetti at the turn of the 1960s. By framing the works within the artist's oeuvre and the international artistic context, as much as examining the process of their execution, the exhibition history and the critical reception, I place these drawings among the major examples of the reassessment of traditional genres and practices by the avant-garde artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
L'Uomo Nero. Materiali per una storia delle arti della modernità, 2018
Examination of the works elaborated by the Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone in 1970 and propose... more Examination of the works elaborated by the Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone in 1970 and proposed to the landmark exhibition "Information" art the Museum of Modern Art in New York. I especially focus on the artist's seminal environmental installation "Demagnetizzazione di una stanza" and the first version of his signature work "Rovesciare i propri occhi" within the general development of the art practice at the turn of the 1960s and early 1970s
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca. Annali delle arti e degli archivi. Pittura, Scultura, Architettura., 2017
I focus on the interest of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo in collecting non Western art, and reconstruct... more I focus on the interest of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo in collecting non Western art, and reconstruct the phases of such interest and taste alongside the development of the well known collection of contemporary art. I especially concentrate on the "curatorial" choices which Panza made in installing the two collections in the room of his apartment in Milan and Villa Panza di Biumo in Varese.
L'Illustrazione. Rivista del libro a stampa illustrato, 2017
Examination of the plates that the famous Italian illustrator Grazia Nidasio authored for the pub... more Examination of the plates that the famous Italian illustrator Grazia Nidasio authored for the publication of the Orlando furioso reread by Italo Calvino in the collection of young adult books of Mondadori publishing house.
Le sources au travail: Collections d'art et musées à l'épreuve du temps présent. Journal de l'Université d'été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky, 2017
Paper drawn from the presentation made during the 4th Summer University - Université d'été, "Prim... more Paper drawn from the presentation made during the 4th Summer University - Université d'été, "Primary Sources at Work: Art Collections and Museums in Present Times / Les sources au travail: Collections d'art et musées à l'épreuve du temps present" at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at Centre Pompidou, Paris (July 5-13, 2017)
In Situ. Revue des Patrimoines, 2017
Essays by Francesco Guzzetti
Oltre il ‘900. Ubaldo Oppi e Arturo Martini, due artisti a confronto. Lugano-London: Amedeo Porro Fine Arts, 2021
Analysis of a few samples in the history of photography in the interwar period, with special focu... more Analysis of a few samples in the history of photography in the interwar period, with special focus on its connection with the practice of painters and sculptors associated with the so-called "Magical Realism" or the Italian "Valori Plastici". By looking at the work and theories of photographers in Germany through the interpretation provided by scholars such as Walter Benjamin, I aim to shed light on the reciprocity between photography and painting and the impact that the first had in facilitating the reassessment of the genre of portraiture by Italian painters and sculptors in the 1920s and 1930s.
M. Minissieux-Chamonard, C. Pocheau-Lesteven, eds. Giuseppe Penone: Sève et pensée. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2021
The essay investigates the art of Giuseppe Penone, by focusing on how the concept and format of b... more The essay investigates the art of Giuseppe Penone, by focusing on how the concept and format of book and the practice of reading informed his vision in radically reassessing the tenets of sculpture. Defining aspects of the artist's practice, such as the notions of contact, reciprocity and interconnectedness are imbued with references to book(s) and reading.
Motion: Transformation. 35th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts. Conference proceedings. Part 2. Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2021
Paper presented at 35th CIHA edition in Florence in 2019. The essay focuses on the practice of th... more Paper presented at 35th CIHA edition in Florence in 2019. The essay focuses on the practice of the Italian artist Emilio Prini, the most conceptual and relatively hidden figure among the ones associated with Arte Povera. By looking at his work through the point of view of conceptual art, I aim to demonstrate how prescient and pioneering Prini was in envisioning some major visual concerns about the concepts of standard and the use of media, which would fashion the artistic practice between the late 1960s and 1970s.
M. Tonelli, ed. Penone: Disegni. Spoleto-Arezzo: Galleria civica d'arte moderna-Magonza, 2021
Italian version of the interview with the artist Giuseppe Penone, on the development of his drawi... more Italian version of the interview with the artist Giuseppe Penone, on the development of his drawing practice throughout the years.
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Through the reconstruction of the earlier reception and circulation of the various versions of Medardo Rosso's sculpture "Femme à la voilette", I concentrate on well known as well as hitherto unstudied sources on the art of Medardo Rosso between the late 19th and the early 20th century, thus rediscovering and analyzing key sources in Italian, French, German and English.
13: 85-88 (no. 23), 145-148 (no. 44), 162-163 (no. 47). Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi, 2013. Exhibition catalogue
I addressed the development of the conception and employment of the screen by Italian artists in the 1960s, and focused especially on two works by Giuseppe Penone and Emilio Prini made in 1970, as part of my whole postdoctoral research project at VES department at Harvard.
March 18, 2015
In conjunction with the exhibition Medardo Rosso presented at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) through June 27, 2015, this lecture explores the connection between "Arte Povera" in Italy and Conceptual Art in the United States since 1970. Among other sources, Medardo Rosso's work will be charted in relation to the debate around rethinking of the canons of sculpture.