Forschungsinteressen
- Postwar art practices in Italy
- Fascist heritage
- The rural in the arts, from the 1900s to the present
- Artistic practices and science
Forschungsprojekt
Vita
Dr Elisabetta Rattalino is a Postdoctoral fellow and
an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of
Bolzano, where she works in the research unit “Curating Bolzano fascist
legacies: A sustainable approach to a city’s dissonant heritage”. In 2018, she
obtained a Ph.D. from the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews
with a thesis titled “The Seasons in the City. Artists and Rural World in the
Era of Calvino and Pasolini”, which is currently becoming a book. At the Free
University of Bolzano, Elisabetta was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Piattaforma
Patrimonio Culturale e Produzione Culturale (“Written in the landscape. Places, traces and memories
of the First World War in the Sesto Dolomites”, 2022), and conducted research into the intersections
between contemporary art and science (2018-2021). Since 2010, she has been
collaborating with artists and arts organisations in both Italy (Cittadellarte
- Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella; BAU - Institute for Arts and Ecology, Bolzano)
and Scotland (Deveron Projects, Huntly). Her research was supported by the
Istituto di Cultura Italiana di Mumbai, The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
(BauhauLab), CIMA – Centre for Italian Modern Art, the Margaret and Alfred
Forrest Trust, and Fondazione G. Goria (Master dei Talenti).