Adrian Duran interrogates labour in the varying political and artistic conversations within Italian Modern Art.

As part of its spring season, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation will present a four-part lecture series examining the idea of artistic labor as it was (re)conceived by the members of Arte Povera during the 1960s and ’70s. The series will consider how artists of the period challenged traditional methods of production and systems of value, framing their experimentation within the broader socio-political unrest of the period as protests against industrialization, consumerism, and class inequality swept across Italy.

The lecture will last approximately 45 minutes and be followed by a Q&A session.

Guests must be able to provide proof of vaccination in order to attend.

Icons and Indexes of Labor in Postwar Italy | Adrian Duran, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha | April 16, 2022, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

About Adrian Duran

Adrian R. Duran is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is also affiliated faculty in the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies, Medical Humanities, and the Goldstein Center for Human Rights. His monograph “Painting, Politics, and the New Front of Cold War Italy” was published by Routledge in 2018. Duran is presently the Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis and on the Steering Committee for UNO’s ArteLatinx 2022 exhibition. At some point in the indefinite future, he will finally commit to his study of Venetian painting after the fall of the Republic to Napoleon.

Registration

Time: 3:00 pm — 5:00 pm

Free!