Art and Power School

The Art and Power School promotes an interregional exchange on the concepts of art and power, encouraging intensive peer-to-peer debates and fostering new perspectives that emerge from group work. Fourteen participants will present their research projects and discuss with the audience and the professors the concepts, instruments, and impact of today’s art historical research on art and power via case studies based on the main topic decolonization: selected objects/artifacts from Antiquity to Contemporary Latin America and Europe under decolonized perspective, questions of provenance and restitution, curatorial strategies and decolonization.

ART AND POWER SCHOOL PROGRAM

- May 29

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Opening and Greetings - Prof. Dr. Jens Baumgarten (Federal University of São Paulo), Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen (Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History)

9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.: Bibliotheca Hertziana short tour - Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen (BH-MPI)

9:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m.: Panel 1

“Italy and Brasília, the ‘New City, Synthesis of the Arts’: the Italian art critics at the Extraordinary International Congress of Art Critics of 1959” - Marina Barzon Silva (University of São Paulo)

“Suburban landscapes of São Paulo: identity and power” - Andrea Augusto Ronqui (University of São Paulo)

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee break

11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Panel 2

“Criticism, power and the public sphere: new arrangements in the light of the present” - Pollyana Campos Quintella (State University of Rio de Janeiro)

“References and resonances of the educational project of the 24th Bienal de São Paulo in the international context - decolonial art/education in dialogue” - André da Silva Torres (Federal University of São Paulo)

- May 30

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Panel 3

“For the Sake of God, Gold, and Science: Photographic Appropriation in Rosana Paulino’s ¿História Natural?” - Maíra Vieira de Paula (University of São Paulo)

“Waters of Kalunga: sea and memory in Aline Motta’s, Rosana Paulino’s and Grada Kilomba’s artworks” - Maria Eduarda Kersting Faria (State University of Rio de Janeiro)

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee break

11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Panel 4

“Edinizio Ribeiro Primo's Black Tropicália” - Glaucio de Souza Santos (Federal University of São Paulo)

“PV Dias' Digital Amazon” - Leandro Raphael Nascimento de Paula (University of São Paulo)

- May 31

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Panel 5

“Mário Navarro da Costa and Rodolfo Pinto do Couto between Portugal and Brazil: articulations for the promotion of Brazilian art in Portugal” - Natália Cristina de Aquino Gomes (Federal University of São Paulo)

“Egyptian musicians at the D. Thereza Christina Maria collection” - Nina Ingrid Caputo Paschoal (Federal University of São Paulo)

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee break

11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Panel 6

“Images, Institutions and Cross-Cultural Systems: Describing and Visualizing ‘The Double Hemisphere Star Atlas’ (1634)” - Jefferson de Albuquerque Mendes (State University of Rio de Janeiro)

“The participation of Mesoamerican urbanism in the modern Western city from the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City” - Ana Paula dos Santos Salvat (University of São Paulo)

- June 1

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Panel 7

“Art, Body, and Power: The Construction of Body Politics of Louis XIV (1648-1715) and Urban VIII (1568-1644)” - Matheus Corassa da Silva (Federal University of São Paulo)

“Analysis of figures representing women in work scenes: How can decolonial theory be useful in the study of Roman antiquity?” - Jaqueline Souza Veloso (Federal University of Minas Gerais | State University of Rio de Janeiro)

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee break

11:15 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Panel 8

Debate and final discussion

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Closing Lecture
“Projections and Reflections: Exhibiting Italian Art in the United States, from Futurism to Arte Povera” - Prof. Dr. Raffaele Bedarida (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art)

Raffaele Bedarida is an art historian and curator specializing in transnational modernism and politics. Since he joined The Cooper Union full-time faculty in 2016, he has coordinated the History and Theory of Art program. Bedarida holds a Ph.D. from the Art History Department of the CUNY Graduate Center, New York as well as M.A. and B.A. degrees in Art History from the Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy. His research has focused on cultural diplomacy, migration, and exchange between Italy and the United States. He has also worked on exhibition history, censorship, and propaganda under Fascism and during the Cold War, from Futurism to Arte Povera. Since 2008, when he founded and curated the residency program Harlem Studio Fellowship in New York, Bedarida has actively promoted programs of international exchange for emerging artists. In addition to his academic and curatorial activities, Bedarida has regularly lectured on modern and contemporary art topics at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and MoMA.

Scientific Organization: Prof. Dr. Jens Baumgarten (Department of Art History of the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Maria Berbara (Department of Theory and Art History of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Ana Gonçalves Magalhães (Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Vinicius Pontes Spricigo (Department of Art History of the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil), Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen (Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy). Invited professors: Prof. Dr. Rafael Cardoso (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Freie University, Berlin, Germany), Prof. Dr. José Luis Martínez (University of Chile). Support: The Getty Foundation (Connecting Art Histories).