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Giovanni Aloi
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Artifact: What Others Don't Tell You About Art.
This Channel focuses on the important ideas and essential concepts that empower you to understand art on your own terms. Art historians have often hidden behind hard-to-understand, nebulous, and downright pretentious explanations that keep art exclusive. Artifact is inclusive, engaging, thorough, and thought-provoking.
This Channel focuses on the important ideas and essential concepts that empower you to understand art on your own terms. Art historians have often hidden behind hard-to-understand, nebulous, and downright pretentious explanations that keep art exclusive. Artifact is inclusive, engaging, thorough, and thought-provoking.
Plant skin and the scars on a cactus
What can be learned from Lee Kwang Ho's giant portrait of cacti? Painstakingly rendered, hyper detailed, carefully framed, imperturbable-the monumentality of Lee’s cacti is a plea for attention, an invitation to look and look again not simply at the beauty of these incredibly complex plants, but to encounter them anew, starting by focusing on the surfaces of their skins as interpreted through the idiom of painting. Leaf, pistils, petals, and stems-the skin of plants is not among the parts of vegetal bodies that quickly come to mind. Plant-skin is an odd concept-it isn’t one that we have been trained to entertain. And yet, in scientific terms, plant-skin is called epidermis, just like the skin of mammals and birds, as well as that of other animals. Like in animals, the epidermis is what separates the body of the plant from the rest of the world. It is a sentient membrane; cold, heat, light, wind. Like us, plants feel through their skin. It allows them to see the world despite their lack of optical vision. It simultaneously connects and protects. It contains and retains. It seamlessly envelopes. Lee Kwang Ho’s paintings of cacti appear fully naked, their skin exposed with no shame. Each portrait takes the viewer on a journey of discovery: marks, imperfections, and scars. This is where their true beauty lies; this is where their original identities unfold.
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Is this Desire? On Plants and Consciousness
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Western science has for centuries ruthlessly denied plant sentience and consciousness. Even today, as new research unearths evidence of their complex sensorial relationships with the world, resistance grounded in denial seems to pervade disciplinary inquiries as well as public opinion. What is so unsettling about plant sentience? What could we learn from vegetal desire if we don't suppress it l...
Giovanni Aloi and Jenny Kendler -- 'Through the Eye of the Unicorn' at Chicago Botanic Garden, 2024
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Giovanni Aloi and Jenny Kendler talk about their installation commissioned by the Chicago Botanic Garden. Prairies are intricate tapestries of biodiversity. Bell Bowl Prairie, an irreplaceable 8,000-year-old ecosystem, was substantially destroyed in the recent expansion of Chicago Rockford International Airport. In response, 'Through the Eye of the Unicorn', an installation inspired by the well...
Migrations: Tales of Uprooting, transplanting, and grafting
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Those of us who have left our native countries to settle elsewhere know what it means to feel uprooted. Whether voluntary or not, separation always entails a complex cultural and emotional negotiation. To not recognize the land, nor to understand the language. To be present, yet thoroughly ungrounded. Botanical terminologies such as uprooting, transplanting, and grafting have been frequently us...
What if time was a mother?
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How can language helps us to engage with animals, plants, and whole ecosystems in ways that don't reduce the complexity of their richness and diversity? In this talk delivered at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal in 2024, Giovanni Aloi shares insights and alternatives models that might help us negotiate the vastity of loss, trauma, and regeneration in our relationship with nature. Anthro...
Weeds in Art: Growing in the Shadow of Power
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The least celebrated plants in mainstream culture, those that are often despised as weeds, have recently become political symbols of resilience for marginalized and oppressed minority groups. Weeds are symbolically charged like no other category of plants. It is because they are ontologically defined by the economies of human geographies that they have more recently infiltrated contemporary art...
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape
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In this talk given at the Art Institute of Chicago, Professor Giovanni Aloi introduces the key themes of the exhibition 'Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape' - May 14-September 4, 2023 - and provides important context that helps to better grasp the true originality of Post-Impressionism.
Envisioning New Natures for the Anthropocene -- Beijing Art and Technology Biennale 2023
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Art Historian Giovanni Aloi, Botanist Paul Caradonna, and artist Mark Dorf discuss the aesthetics of nature in the Anthropocene in relation to Mark Dorf's video work "New Nature".
The overlooked ecological message of John Cage's 4'33"
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John Cage's 4'33" remains one of the most important and yet misunderstood compositions/art statements of the last century. On the evening of August 29th 1952, David Tudor stepped on stage at Maverick Concert Hall near Woodstock, New York to perform John Cage’s new piece 4’33”. To the audience’s surprise, he sat at the piano and never touched a single key for precisely 4 minutes and thirty-three...
Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits
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In this talk introduced by Christopher Woodward, director of the Garden Museum, Dr Giovanni Aloi, guest curator of their current exhibition Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits, emphasises the importance of gardens and domestic spaces as opportunities to rethink our relationships with plants. From the delicate realism of the cyclamen’s petals to the bold brushstrokes that immortalize his overgrown gar...
Constructing the Self-Identity and Art
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An overview of the different approaches that artists have over time developed to address the concept of identity. What do portraits and self-portraits say about us, who we are, and we'd like to be?
The Milk of Dreams - A Posthuman Revolution at the 59th Venice Biennale
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This is a succinct history of posthumanism in art to provide readers with important reference points that explain the meaning of recurring aesthetics across the works exhibited at the Venice Biennale of 2022. Cecilia Alemani has curated a “Posthuman Biennale”, so the worldwide press reports. The New York-based curator used the term posthuman at the opening press conference and also gave Rosi Br...
Italian Architecture: Building Sustainable Futures
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Delimiting, separating, excluding, and isolating-at times architectural structures have implicitly reinforced the nature/culture divide that has not only defined our daily activities but that has also shaped our anthropocentric conception. This lecture focuses on selected pioneering examples of sustainable architecture in Italy including Bosco Verticale in Milano and Giardino di Manifattura Tab...
Ecological Perspectives in Contemporary Italian Art
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Who are the contemporary protagonists of the ecological scene in Italy? What are the central topics and concerns? From street art to the gallery space, this lecture presents an overview of the avant-garde Italian artists whose work challenges preconceived notions of ecology and nature in order to sensitize and mobilize audiences. We look at the work of Francesco Simeti, Eugenio Tibaldi, Iena Cr...
Giovanni Aloi & Timothy Morton Plenary Talks and Discussion - Green Studies, 2022
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Plenary contributions by Giovanni Aloi (in Italian) and Timothy Morton (in English) with final discussion (in English) at 'Green Studies: Traiettorie di Ricerca' organized by IUAV University, Venice, 06/13/2022 Morton's talk begins at 46:00 minutes Aloi and Morton discussion in English begins at 1:40:20
Giuseppe Penone: Ecological Thinking
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Giuseppe Penone: Ecological Thinking
Luigi Ghirri: Urban Jungles and Potted Plants
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Luigi Ghirri: Urban Jungles and Potted Plants
Surrealism - Desire, Dreams, and Nightmares
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Surrealism - Desire, Dreams, and Nightmares
What others don't tell you about Monet's water lilies
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What others don't tell you about Monet's water lilies
Cabinet of Curiosities Identity and Power
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Cabinet of Curiosities Identity and Power
Photographing Italy - In Search of a New Realism, Part #4
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Photographing Italy - In Search of a New Realism, Part #4
Why this Ballerina by Degas was called a Monster!
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Why this Ballerina by Degas was called a Monster!
Photographing Italy - Dynamism, Ideology, and Power: Photographs of a Modern Italy - Part #3
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Photographing Italy - Dynamism, Ideology, and Power: Photographs of a Modern Italy - Part #3
Speculative Taxidermy: Indexicality, Vulnerability, and Representation
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Speculative Taxidermy: Indexicality, Vulnerability, and Representation
Photographing Italy - Truth and Fiction: Constructing Identities, Part #2
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Photographing Italy - Truth and Fiction: Constructing Identities, Part #2
Photographing Italy - Drawing with Light: Camera Obscuras, Chemicals, and Plates - Part #1
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Photographing Italy - Drawing with Light: Camera Obscuras, Chemicals, and Plates - Part #1
Dawoud Bey: Constructing Nature, Decolonizing Landscape
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Dawoud Bey: Constructing Nature, Decolonizing Landscape
Thank you for watching Florence Zhou Fine Art 5 -A style of painting which attempted to capture the fleeting moment rather than imitate reality/ you can find at ua-cam.com/video/4cv1iTXcVFA/v-deo.html
Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.
I loved this. 🥰
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Was he trying to say something to the public, or just himself? His interest was hanging out backstage and painting what were essentially little human trafficking victims. Maybe this is just how he perceived his subject, and people though it was gross. He had to include 'age 14' in the title too. Yuck.
Certain things we will never know and drawing assumptions based on today's morals and values just skews history even more. You can read more about what evidence we actually have about his relationship with the ballerinas he painted and sculpted here: news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-little-dancer-degas-2453012
It does look creepy.
Many thanks. The piece has not lost any of its relevance over the past 70 years. I wonder why pianists haven't made it a regular part of their repertoire. It is one of those compositions that have a unique character, it makes no sense to write a piece like 2.37. As far as I know, the wonderful original is lost and I would have loved to have seen all the rests and notated rests, probably in two systems (right and left hand), which could have been actively monitored and which added up to 4.33 minutes. Absolute silence does not exist, just as the two-dimensional - i.e. a surface - is ultimately an abstraction because it does not exist in reality. Every sheet of paper, no matter how thin, still has volume. But through the active use of the pause, silence becomes audible and the audible around it becomes silent. Thank you John Cage forever. Franc Waller
I really enjoyed listening to this lecture! It's obvious you are very passionate about plants. Something that stuck with me was when you pointed out that culturally, we badly want plants to be "good" or represent moral role models. I think that's fascinatingly true and I wonder why that is.
Thank you so much for filling me in with your insights. You answer many questions I have about Degas and his use of cameras/photography, ballet dancers in Paris and his figure sculpture and his horse art. I love Degas and have failed to understand why he feels so modern. From over a century ago as the buffalo were being decimated to starve out the North American Indian.
Amazing presentation! Grazie!
When I was growing up, we had one here in Omaha at the Joslyn Art Museum. Even though I was only a preteen myself the first time I saw it, it was so powerful it almost made me cry, and I didn't really know why. I will never forget the experience. If you ever get a chance to view one close-up, DO IT!
It is a great lecture .
Its an essential perspective you bring for the admirers of this iconic work. Cheers.
Ripper?
Yeah I'm here from that video, too.
Great talk well done,freud is a bona fide genius
Very nice, but I'm surprised Paul Laffoley isn't included!
Well, that Tandiosky wanted us to contemplate his works for hours doesn't mean they deserved all that attention. the idea was interesting, but the execution is not worth it. He failed in this goal. Rothko at least made it a bit better. I can't stand Kandinsky paintings, they are unpleasant to look at
Thank you. I vibrated so happily with your conference 💚🌱
The Met’s 1922 bronze casting has a full knee-length skirt like ballet dancers wore back in 1880s rather than the short skirts that they wore in 1920s when the bronze castings were made.
They're called romantic or romantic-style tutus. ❤
I can't believe some of these were actually celebrated pieces of art.
Degas' s little dancer 14 yo is my favorite piece of art . Like your first love. I am a New Orleanian and very familiar with Edgar Degas from his history there. And yes, there is another bronze of her is at NOMA on permanent display. Love at first sight!
Did you watch the video and grasp that he made a lifelike statue of a 14 year old child that was prostituted? Knowing that makes it creepy and sad to me now.
Incredible poetic presentation! The Magic Mountain video poem and Time is a mother reading of Ocean Wong’s writings are so stunning and emotionally moving. YOU are undeniably an artist, not as label or weight, but as inquisitive observer of the intertwined others voices. Thank you for this nurturing synthesis and video record.
Knowledge is a group noun, just like science and technology!
wow.
thank you for making this!
He used a relatively simple camera and produced stunning photos.
I had only ever heard of this piece as if it was a joke and nothing else. This context is really interesting!
I only recently became aware of Giuseppe Panone from an exhibit at Magazzino in Cold Spring. His work has impacted me deeply. Thank you for this wonderful video and helping me see his work from multiple perspectives!
the beeswax and real human hair is shocking to me, I imagine it almost looking like a toy doll with that brushable hair little girls like. Definitely makes me look at it differently
It's definitely shocking. Knowing I am looking at a statue of a "Little Rat", a 14 year old child that was prostituted, has definitely changed how I see this and all his works.
@@TurquoiseInk It's worse when you read the book about the model "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen" and realize she went missing several years after posing for Degas. There also might be organs hidden inside the original, as an Xray showed "organic material" inside, and wax was often used for organ preservation.
I found this video because I was trying to learn about the theory of abjection, but I stayed for the interesting art pieces you chose to talk about. I think the one that will stick with me the most will be the box of flies. Your personal experience smelling that one really burned it into my memory. Thank you for the insightful video!
This was incredible, useful and redemptive. Thanks so much!
John Martin is the GOAT.
In regards to Duchamp, It's not what happens in the world but only to the western canons.
Тhank you for including The annunciation icon from Ohrid in your lecture. great work
I appreciate your well researched telling of Ligabue's life and art. Very fascinating and well presented. Surviving the murder of your mother and siblings by your step father would make anyone mentally traumatized. A lot of highly sensitive people are those who became hyper-alert to their surroundings and the people in it as a protective mechanism to cope with a dangerous environment, be that violence such as bullying, war, or experiences of physical abuse. Trauma can make one feel the world is inherently unsafe and therefore, the structures of "normal" culture often feel dangerous. I believe you're seeing Ligabue's vegetarianism via a modern lens. He was probably vegetarian because, as a highly sensitive person, being forced to eat rancid meat left a lifelong indelible repulsion for the taste of any animal flesh.
Much to agree with here, but there is an assumption baked into the critique of western humanist culture that sexism, racism and other affronts to fairness somehow can be recovered in a post-human philosophy where man rejects his history of narcisism accepts the values of earth's ecosystems, One can look in vain outside of human philosophical musings for the existance of "fairness". It is a human hominid or primate invention.
my impressionism obsession began when i visited musee d’orsey in paris in april.. then i went to the national gallery in london to continue my obsession, i love him and pissaro, their art has never captured me so much
Thank you !
excellent presentation..thanks
Many thanks for sharing this! Any chance you’ll be giving a talk when the exhibition comes to Amsterdam?
...if I receive an invitation from the museum... I am glad you liked the talk!
This was one of the most insightful, interesting, and comprehensive talks of the exhibition. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and levity!
Found this lecture really useful. Although I am a student of literature, your consideration of wide perspectives and multiple examples not only really helped me better visualize and grasp the concepts but also helped me form a better understanding of the context to read the given texts in from now on. Thanks a lot!
I've always been fascinated with these flowers ever since i could remember, and yeah, i grew up planting several flowers on our backyard. that's why i like Monet's paintings that shows any plants, especially these lilies. You've done a great job with explaining them, hoping for more people to see this
I wonder if there are any references to Arte Povera by Pier Paolo Pasolini?
Absolutely! Tell me more. What do you see?
Great video very informative!! Great work
Great presentation.Thank you
We have one of her at the St. Louis Art Museum. Whose idea was it to put a real silk ribbon of the back of her braid? It looks very contrived to me.
well, that was Degas's original idea...
@@GiovanniAloiArtifact THANK YOU so much for replying and clarifying about the ribbon. Now I love the ribbon! Thanks again
@@CynymonGirl My pleasure!
Wonderful collages. I was introduced to her work through Katy Hessel's book A History of Art Without Men. Your talk was superb, deftly ranging from the particular qualities of Mary Delany's work and her place in a world of creativity. Thankyou.
Thanks for the kind words -- I am glad you enjoyed it!
A poetic direct and clear explanation of post humanism. thank you.
Thank you!
girls were taken from poverty abused into ballerinas and sold off to do sexual favors for wealthy patrons at the time, this was very much the case when the art form changed from a male thing into a more female thing < BECAUSE of prostitution in my opinion
This was a fascinating presentation! I got to see this piece when it was on tour at the Phoenix Art Museum. I wish I had known this then. You packed that video with so much information. What an education! Thank you!
Thank you!