Magazzino Italian Art presented a free, day-long symposium on Saturday, April 27, with five leading scholars of feminism and art history, celebrating the recent publication of the essay collection Now We Have Seen: Women and Art in 1970s Italy.
The in-person event was live streamed here on Saturday, April 27th from 11:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Exploring multiple issues in the artistic, social, and political currents of the period and their continuing resonance today, Now We Have Seen: Women and Art in 1970s Italy is the product of a research project initiated by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, supported by the Italian Council’s Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture, with scientific organization by Giorgia Gastaldon.
In collaboration with these institutions, Magazzino offered the public the opportunity to meet all contributors to the book—the editor of the book Giorgia Gastaldon and the authors Silvia Bottinelli, Maria Bremer, Lara Conte, and Raffaella Perna—and attend presentations of their research from 11:30 am to 5:00 pm in the museum’s Robert Olnick Pavilion.
There was question-and-answer sessions at the end of both the morning and afternoon sessions, with a lunch break.
Schedule and Speakers
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Introduction by Filippo Fossati, Director, Magazzino Italian Art
Weaving and Stitching: Female and Feminist Practices in Italian Abstract Art in the 1970s
Giorgia Gastaldon, Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art History at the University of Insubria (Varese-Como)
Behind the Window in Postwar Italian Art: Reframing a Metaphor
Silvia Bottinelli, Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Visual and Material Studies Department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston
Photobooks and Feminism in Italy in the 1970s
Raffaella Perna, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at the University of Roma La Sapienza
Q&A
1:30–2:30 p.m. – Lunch break
2:30–4:00 p.m.
Sculpture Practices and Feminist Perspective, from the Historical Dimension to the Present: Genealogies and Reception
Lara Conte, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at Roma Tre University
Recognition Across Time: “Herstories” in Exhibitions (1970s/2020s)
Maria Bremer, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum
Q&A
