piranesi
Symposium
On Piranesi (in Ghent)
9 januari, 2009
MSK/ Museum voor Schone Kunsten
Citadelpark, Gent
Georganiseerd door de Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedenbouw van de Universiteit Gent & GUST (Ghent Urban Studies Team), in samenwerking met MSK Gent
Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (MSK Gent) toont momenteel een grootse tentoonstelling met het grafisch werk van Giambattista Piranesi (1720-1774): Piranesi. De Prentencollectie van de Universiteit Gent. (20/09/2008-18/01/2009).
De tentoonstelling volgt Piranesi's activiteiten als kunstenaar, archeoloog, polemist en visionair architect en antiquair, en situeert zijn Vedute di Roma in de tradities van het Romeinse stadsgezicht en van de archeologische tekening.
De tentoonstelling is samengesteld en gerealiseerd door een onderzoeksteam van de Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedenbouw van de UGent. Curatoren: Maarten Delbeke, Dirk De Meyer, Bart Verschaffel, Sarah Schouwers (coordinator); tentoonstellingsarchitecten Guy Châtel & Kris Coremans; grafisch ontwerpers: Bas Rogiers.
De Vakgroep Architectuur en Stedenbouw van de Universiteit Gent en Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST) organiseren een symposium over Piranesi en over de resultaten van het onderzoek gevoerd naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling: On Piranesi (in Ghent).
Voertaal van het symposium is het Engels. De sprekers zijn: Mario Bevilacqua (Università di Firenze), Sigrid De Jong (Leiden University), Maarten Delbeke (UGent & Leiden University), Dirk De Meyer (UGent), Steven Jacobs (St-Lukas Brussel & Universiteit Antwerpen), Lola Kantor-Kazosky (University of Jeruzalem), Bart Verschaffel (UGent).
Inschrijven bij Maarten Liefooghe, coördinator UGent: , fax: +32 9 264 41 85. Bij inschrijving per e-mail of fax voor 5 januari bedraagt de deelnameprijs €10, te betalen aan de museumbalie (en toegang tot het museum inbegrepen). Bij inschrijving op 9 januari: €15.
Programma
10.15: Inleiding: Piranesi in Ghent
10.30-11.15: Dirk De Meyer, Archeology and Invention
11.15-12.00: Maarten Delbeke, Architecture as an enigmatic expression in Piranesi and predecessors
12.15-13.00: Lola Kantor-Kazovsky, Annio da Viterbo's Myth of the Etruscans and its Influence on Architecture
Lunchpauze
14.00-14.45: Mario Bevilacqua, Piranesi. New Evidence from the Modena Sketchbooks
14.45-15.30: Sigrid De Jong, Piranesi, Paestum and Primitivism
15.45-16.30: Bart Verschaffel, 'Panic Space'. The function of the 'staffage' in Piranesi's vedute
16.30-17.15: Steven Jacobs, Eisenstein's Piranesi and Cinematic Space
Sprekers
Mario Bevilacqua is Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Storia dell'architettura e della città, Università de Firenze and researcher at the Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l'Immagine di Roma, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Roma.
Sigrid de Jong is a PhD-researcher and lecturer at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her thesis focuses on Paestum in Eighteenth Century Architectural Thought. She obtained a Master's degree in Art and Architectural History at the University of Amsterdam in 1997. She has worked as a curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. For her research on Paestum, she was awarded research grants by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art in London and by the Institut d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris.
Maarten Delbeke (UGent & Leiden University) teaches architectural history and theory at the universities of Ghent and Leiden, and is a post-doctoral researcher with the FWO. He has published on early modern architecture, sculpture and theory, as the co-editor of Bernini's Biographies. Critical Essays, among others, and on contemporary architecture as well.
Dirk De Meyer (UGent) teaches architectural history at Ghent University. His research focuses on the architecture of the 17th and 18th century. His publications include Johann Santini Aichel: Architectuur en ambiguiteit, Eindhoven, 1997, 2 vol. 576 pp; 'Writing Architectural History and Building a Czechoslovak Nation', 1887-1918, in: Wolf Tegethoff, ed., Nation, Style, Modernism, 2006. He was 'chief curator' of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, and curator of exhibitions such as Opus Italicum: Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architects in Prague (2000-2001).
Steven Jacobs is an art historian (PhD) specialized in the photographic and cinematic representations of architecture, cities, and landscapes. In 2007 he published The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (010 Publishers, Rotterdam). He has taught at several universities and art schools in Belgium and the Netherlands. He currently teaches film history at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels, the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, and the University of Antwerp.
Lola Kantor-Kazovsky studied with the late Professor Moshe Barash, published in Apollo, Memoirs of American Academy in Rome, Jewish Art, Ars Judaica; she is author of Piranesi as Interpreter of Roman Architecture and the Origins of His Intellectual World (2006). Lola Kantor-Kazovsky is a lecturer in art history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Bart Verschaffel is full professor of Theory of Architecture and Architectural Criticism at Ghent University. He has numerous publications in the field of Architectural Theory, Theory of History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Culture, such as: Architecture is (as) a gesture (2001), A propos de Balthus (2004); Van Hermes en Hestia. Teksten over architectuur (2006); Essais sur les genres en peinture. Nature morte, portrait, paysage (2007).
Tentoonstelling en publicatie
An exhibition catalogue is published by A&S/books: www.AandSbooks.ugent.be
Visitor information for the exhibition: www.mskgent.be
For a preview of the exhibition: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugentvas/sets/72157607661029352/show/