Le Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts
2/ Luigi Ghirri: Urban Jungles and Potted Plants
Thursday, March 31 at 6pm CT
Online Webinar
Luigi Ghirri, one of the undisputed pioneers of Italian photography, passed away thirty years ago. Meticulously composed and deliberately dead-pan, Ghirri’s images of plants reinvent the history of botanical representation through the photographic lens. A far cry from Karl Blossfeldt’s iconic portraits of plants and the sublimity of Ansel Adam’s American wildscapes, Ghirri’s visual commentary explore the tension between nature and culture in the unsettlingly still microcosm of north Italian suburbia. Presented by Dr. Giovanni Aloi, Art Historian, Educator, and Curator.
Prof. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
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This event is part of the series Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts, the theme selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago for 2022. The program explores the role of Italian art and sciences in redefining the perception of nature and ecology, through new and original perspectives.