Guggenheim Art Classes 2016: Aporetic dialogue

Guggenheim Art Classes 2016
Conducted by Alessandra Montalbetti, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

In philosophy, “aporetic dialogue” refers to the difficulty and uncertainty incurred by reason when faced by two opposite arguments both of which are possible and often irreconcilable. Aporetic dialogue occurs frequently in art: artists who live in the same epoch, who breathe the same cultural aura, who are nourished by that humus constituted by literature and music, but who embark on surprisingly different careers. Not by chance, the philosopher Giorgio Agamben has, solely for the world of art, formulated one of the best definitions for this, captured in the concept of “vice-versa”.
In these meetings we will savor the marvel of such differences fused in the works of master painters and master sculptors, sometimes friends, sometimes colleagues in the same artistic movement, sometimes merely contemporaries of the same cultural period.

FIRST SERIES
From 7pm to 8:45pm
February 1: Giotto / Giovanni Pisano
February 15: Jan Van Eyck / Lorenzo Ghiberti
February 29: Antonello da Messina / Andrea del Verrocchio
March 14: Tiziano Vecellio / Michelangelo Buonarroti
March 29: Artemisia Gentileschi / Gian Lorenzo Bernini

SECOND SERIES
From 7pm to 8:45pm
April 1: Antonio Canal / Nicolo Salvi
April 19: William Blake / Antonio Canova
May 3: Edward Burne Jones / Leonardo Bistolfi
May 10: Giovanni Fattori / Vincenzo Vela
May 31: Edward Hopper / Pablo Picasso

THIRD SERIES
From 7pm to 8:45pm
October 3: Georgia O’Keefe / Eduardo Paolozzi
October 17: Giuseppe Romagnosi / Floriano Bodini
October 31: Francis Bacon / Germaine Richier
November 14: Victor Vasarely / Alexander Calder
November 28: Yves Klein / Niki de Saint Phalle