Underskog

Gesture, Matter and Intimacy.
A Symposium on Painting After 1850

28.10, 2011, kl.10-17, Aud, 2, Helga Engs Hus, UiO

Focusing on the concept of gesture opens for a reflection on time, movement and intimacy as they unfold within the immanence of the artwork. Gestures can be understood at once as pre-reflexive articulations of what is not yet codified, as materializations of the painter-subject, as rhetorical figures and as appeal to the onlooker. The sensuous aspect of gestures also invites reflections on gender issues and the concept of expression. While gesticulation forms a central element of artistic production in general, this symposium limits its focus to painting after 1850.

LECTURES BY: RICHARD SHIFF (Yale), MIKKEL BOGH (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), BENTE LARSEN (UiO), ANNE WICHSTRØM (UiO) and ØYSTEIN SJÅSTAD (UiO)

Keynote speakers:

Richard Shiff received his Ph.D. from Yale University and holds the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art and directs the Center for the Study of Modernism at The University of Texas at Austin. His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern art from the early nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on French painting and post-war American and European art. He has been particularly involved with theory and criticism. His publications include Cezanne and the End of Impressionism (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Critical Terms for Art History (University of Chicago Press, 1996, 2003), Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University Press, 2004), and numerous studies of critical and methodological issues. Recent essays have focused on Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Donald Judd, Bridget Riley, Georg Baselitz, Markus Lüpertz, and Per Kirkeby, among others. His most recent books are Doubt, a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism (Routledge, 2008), and Between Sense and de Kooning (Reaktion, 2011).

Mikkel Boghs is rector at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Previously Bogh held a position as associate professor at the Department of Art History, The University of Copenhagen. He is the editor of the art journal, Sum. Among his publications are, Det usete billede: Per Bak Jensen, Gyldendal 2006, M. Bogh ed. (with Ring Petersen, Nørgaard Larsen and Dam Christensen), Contemporary Painting in Context. Museum Tusculanum Press 2009. (with Anne Ring Pedersen og Anders Troelsen); Thomas Bang, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2009. (with Ring Petersen, Nørgaard Larsen og Dam Christensen), Images of Culture. Art History as Cultural History. Museum Tusculanum Press 2011 (in press) (with Ring Petersen, Nørgaard Larsen og Dam Christensen), Anthro/Socio: Towards an Anthropological Paradigm in Histories, Theories and Practices of Art. Museum Tusculanum Press 2011 (in press).