CAMeC, La Spezia
Friday, December 6th, 6:00 PM
The visionary art of Gordon Matta-Clark will be the focus of an engaging conversation between architectural historian Emanuele Piccardo and Gerhard Wolf, curator of the new installation of CAMeC’s Permanent Collection.
Starting from the book Gordon Matta-Clark: the hole architecture edited by Piccardo (Plug_in, 2023), the discussion will explore the connection between the artwork A W – Hole House and the museum’s new installation, which investigates the concept of the “hole” as an artistic gesture, in dialogue with Lucio Fontana’s iconic Concetto Spaziale.
Emanuele Piccardo
Architect, architectural critic, and curator, Emanuele Piccardo founded the magazine archphoto.it in 2002. He has been invited to lecture in New York, Princeton, Los Angeles, Rome, Turin, Milan, Venice, and Florence. His research focuses on Italian Radical Architecture (Superstudio, Archizoom, UFO, Gianni Pettena, Ugo La Pietra) and architectural and artistic experiments in the North American desert (Paolo Soleri, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michael Heizer, James Turrell, Robert Smithson).
In 2013, he won the Graham Foundation Grant with Amit Wolf and Woodbury University for the Beyond Environment project. In 2015, he received the Autry Scholar Fellowship for the project Living the Frontier. His research on Radical Architecture became part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture archive in 2023, and his photographs are preserved at the MAXXI Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and the Fondation Le Corbusier. In 2023, he was awarded the Bruno Zevi Prize for spreading architectural culture by Inarch/Liguria.
Gerhard Wolf
Gerhard Wolf has been the director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institut since 2003 and is a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He has taught art history at the University of Trier and as a guest professor at international universities. His research spans global and transcultural art, image ecologies, and theories. He has co-curated major exhibitions and published essays on artistic themes, including his most recent work, Aby Warburg, Florence, and the Laboratory of Images (2023).
Free admission until seats are filled.
Credits: Gordon Matta-Clark, “A W – Hole House: Roof Top Atrium”, 1973 (CAMeC Collection)
