Art History

El Museo Nacional de Colombia posee en sus colecciones veinte obras de Guillermo Wiedemann (1905-1969), pintor alemán nacionalizado colombiano, entre las que se encuentran nueve óleos, seis acuarelas, cuatro collages y un armario-ropero, realizados entre 1940 y 1964. Para llamar la atención sobre estas obras y conmemorar los cien años de su nacimiento, el Museo llevó a cabo en 2005 una serie de actividades en torno a sus aportes al arte colombiano, que sirvieron de antesala a la exposición “Wiedemann por Colombia: la mirada de un artista”. Esta exposición surge de la intención de mostrar Cuadernos de bocetos, de propiedad del Departamento de Arte de la Universidad de los Andes, y de profundizar en la información sobre los primeros años de Wiedemann en Colombia.

This essay appeared as a result of intensive archive researches and interviews realized during multiple trips throughout India as well as in Italy, investigating the conditions of the over 100.000 Italian detained in Prisoners of War and Internment Camps in India during and right after WW2.
At the beginning of the 1940s, being Italian in India meant to be an enemy alien as Italy had declared war on France and Britain on June 10, 1940. Father Luca Vannucci was a Capuchin monk from Tuscany.
Nino La Civita was an artist from Abruzzo, who had graduated from the Sacred Art School in Rome. Both were in India at the start of World War II. Both were arrested and interned in Premnagar.
Today, the frescos of the Church of St Francis in Dehra Dun commissioned by Farther Luca and realized by La Civita in 1946-47 stand testimony to a friendship and collaboration between a parish priest and an artist, two Italians who met each other in an internment camp in India in the 1940s.
This is a living evidence of how cross-boundary collaborations can happen, despite of adverse human conditions and social turmoil, and play an important role in their local realities.

Spaces of Flow. The Beijing Biennial of Architecture
Curators: Luca Zordan, Scott Lloyd
Time & Venue: National Museum of China, Beijing, September/October 2006
Presentation: Curated by Luca Zordan and Scott Lloyd, the exhibition reflects on the phenomenon of massive migration inside China and on rise of five urban agglomerations located in different areas of China. It points out the responsibility of architects and urban planners to recognize and include broader issues of social sustainability, flows of people in the city, offering guidelines and parameters for urban strategies to regulate flows, to calculate and determine people time in the city, to focus on the functions, movements and networks of the city.
Participant artists & architects: Xu Zhen (China), Wang Wei (China), Liu Ding (China), Jia Zhangke (China), Kimsooja (Korea); Gregotti Associati (Italy), ArchA - Pier Paolo Maggiora (Italy), PTW Architects (Australia), The China Pavillon in the 2006 International Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Dac – Danish Architecture Center (Danemark), UiD (Danemark), Arkitema (Danemark), Meierhans & Partner (Switzerland), Walton Design (China), Cr Land (China), LuoYing (China), Asadoba (Russian Federation), Baumschlager + Eberle (Austria), Itami Jun (Japan), Atelier 100s-1 (China), VBN (USA), Cheng Tai Ning (China), The Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture (Danemark), Zhejiang University Architectural School (China), Beijing Olimpic Forest Park Design Team (China), Zhu Pei (China).

The special exhibition entitled Memories on E-motion is part of China International Gallery Exposition 2007 held at the China World Trade Centre in Beijing in 2007.
The exhibition presents the works of six internationally recognized artists invited by six renowned curators and museum directors. In the catalogue introduction Luca Zordan wrote: 'Now as maybe never before technology has such a strong cross-border impact on culture. Our bodies are constantly extended into technologies; technology apparently amplifies, extends our body function, definitely influencing our memories and memory processes... The concept of E-motion encompassses the movements of people across the world as well as the networks that the high-technological society provides us in our daily movement through public and cyber-space.'
Images of works are accompanied by artist interviews/essays by the corresponding curators. Biographies of the artists are also provided.

Conceived and organized by Luca Zordan, the exhibition reflects on our contemporary world of global interchanges and border-crossing experiences. Ideas and intellectual traditions are transformed when they migrate with people that change location, in contact with new environment, generating new experiences, and new memories. Artists and curators who have been previously collaborating on projects are invited to take part to the exhibitions.

Participant artists and curators: Kim Sooja (Korea), Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon), Christian Boltanski (France), Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Japan), Shu-Min Lin (Taiwan), Li Yongbin (China), presented respectively by curators Trevor Smith, Curator, Bard College (USA), Gerald Matt, Director, Kunsthalle, Vienna (Austria), Danilo
Eccher, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (Italy) Mami Kataoka, Curator, Mori Art Museum (Japan), Wu Hung, Professor, Chicago Art Institute (China), Fei Dawei, Director, Ullens Foundation, Beijing (China).

China International Gallery Exposition 2007: Special Art Event: Subliminals, 2007中藝博國際畫廊博覽會: 特別藝術項目展: Subliminals

Subliminals presents projects realized by art organizations that are active in the contemporary art scene, but do not usually participate in art fairs. This year the participants are Ars Electronica (Austria), Casa Asia (Spain), Edge Zones (USA), Fuoribiennale (Italy), PhotoExpana (Spain) and Fundacion Telefonica (Spain). The present publication includes preface by Luca Zordan, brief introductions to the participating organisations and their past projects.

e-Co Design Festival
The festival brings together designers, artists and scientists from almost 20 countries around the world, inviting them to enter in contact with Zhejiang’s cultural, economical, and natural resources, to produce art and design works with local material, as textile, bamboo, paper, manufacture products, as well as to reflect on the impact of global processes of industrialization and design.

Artistic Director and Curator: Luca Zordan
Venue & Time: Zhejiang Art Museum, West Lake (Hangzhou, Zhejiang) / April 2011


Participants:
Kimsooja, artist (South Korea); Winter/Hoerbelt, artists (Germany); Andres Burbano, new media artist/theorist (Colombia); Sebastian Herkner, industrial designer (Germany); Luca Schenato, video animation director (Italy); Jayne Dyer, artist (Australia); Bruno Porto, graphic designer (Brazil); Alessandro Rolandi, artist (Italy); Vanessa Notley, artist (UK, France); Peter Noever, Designer, Curator Art+Architecture (Austria); Clive Roux, CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (USA); Chen Dongliang, Chairman, China Red Star Design Award Committee; Soon-In Lee, President, Seoul Design Center (Korea); Young Kim, CEO, Inno Design (Korea); Peter
Litzlbauer, Professor of Architecture and Design, Stuttgart University (Germany); Reiner Packeiser, Head of Exhibitions, Vitra Design Museum (Germany); Lars Thoegersen, CEO, CPH Design (Danemark); Anu Leinonen, Architect (Finland); Sebastian Herkner, Industrial Designer (Germany); Stephane Boucher, Enthomologist, National Museum of Natural History (France); Laurent Jammes, General Manager, ACTYS (France); Lynnette Chan, founder, rénnovate (Singapore); Michael Leung, industrial designer (Hong Kong); Russel Haines, Design Manager, memoryxdesign (New Zealand); Cecilia Reichstul, Architect (Brazil); Jose Manuel Enesoe Chan, Fashion Designer (Brazil); Per Erik Bjornsen, CEO, Morph Design and Consulting (Italy); Jonas Merian, Furniture Designer (Switzerland)

Hosts & Sponsors: Zhejiang Economic and Information Technology Commission; Hangzhou Municipal Government; Hangzhou Economic Commission; Fuyang Municipal Government; Hangzhou Industrial Design Association; Ego Sunhoo Industrial Design Innovation Park

Durch die Vorstellung naturwissenschaftlicher Bilder, welche aus Kontexten der künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Kooperation stammen, skizziert Luca Zordan Symptome einer sich im 19. Jahrhundert entfaltenden Ökologisierung. Der Fokus richtet sich dabei auf den Beitrag von Tierillustrationen in Publikationen aus der Zeit der Popularisierung des Wissens zur Entwicklung hybrider Ansichten, welche Phänomene einer Verwandtschaft von Mensch und Tier ausdrücken. Exemplarisch dienen zu dieser Analyse Holzstiche des Künstlers Robert Kretschmer in Alfred Brehms Illustrirtes Thierleben.

La relazione con lo spazio pubblico e la lavorazione della materia sono due momenti centrali e inseparabili, che da decenni si integrano e compenetrano nell’attività di Pino Castagna, caratterizzandone il fare artistico.

Nell’ambito della mostra a Palazzo Barbaran viene posta particolare attenzione da una parte alla realizzazione di opere commissionate da committenti pubblici e volte a una fruizione pubblica, dall'altra alla ricerca materica e alla sperimentazione dei materiali più diversi, da sempre presente nelle opere dell'artista.

Opere di Castagna in spazi pubblici si trovano tutt’oggi in molteplici città e località europee, tra cui si ricordano “Due figure” (1970-74) presso il Tempio Malatestiano di Rimini, “Fiore” (1978) a Deauville in Francia, “Memoria della Giudecca” (1981-82) a Francoforte in Germania, “Muro” (1983-84) a Quarona Sesia, “Montagna spaccata” (1987-88) in piazza Roma a Recoaro Terme, “Chiesa all’aperto – il grande segno” (1988-94) presso il Sagrato della Chiesa di Zermeghedo, “Monadi” (1997) a Villa Glori a Roma, “Lo spino del filo spinato” (2001-2009) a piazza Isolo a Verona, “Cespo veneziano” (2002) a Castellón de La Plana in Spagna, “Alpinia – Cascade de Beynost” (2005) nei pressi di Lione in Francia, “… in pietra alpestra e dura” (2008-2009) in piazza Bad-Kissingen a Marina di Massa, “Canyon” (2012-13) a San Tirso in Portogallo.

Accanto a queste in collocazione permanente, innumerevoli sono state le installazioni temporanee, che Castagna ha eseguito in spazi pubblici, tra cui per esempio sulla Maximilianstrasse a Monaco di Baviera (1971), in centro storico a Lucca (1976), nel parco di Palazzo delle Albere a Trento (1985), in centro storico a Salisburgo (1979), nel parco di Villa Carrara Bottagisio a Bardolino (1982), in differenti località della Lunigiana (2007), all’Isola della Certosa a Venezia (2009), a Villa Contarini a Piazzola sul Brenta (2011), a piazza dell’ Università a Treviso (2013).

如今大部分的学术和社会机构仍然延用十九世纪欧洲的知识分类方法，但是在越发交融甚至“流动”的社会中，严格的边界已经模糊。
  早在公元八世纪，尼西亚宪法中就有对经济 的解释，其中明确指出经济可以用跨学科方法来分析多元的情况，并借助艺术及其他相关的领域扩展更多的途径，这种做法从文艺复兴一直延用至今。它使我们对艺术管理和艺术产业的价值有了理论的认识，并影响了这一领域日后发展的形式和范畴。
  伟大作品的集中出现，多源于艺术运动。如今，艺术正处于飞速变革和全球化挑战中，博物馆及艺术产业体系的形成，会深刻地影响新兴的艺术管理。
  艺术的价值和功能已经重新配置。一方面，它体现在“文化和创新产业”近期的结构中，另一方面，艺术也开始被企业和政府应用于经济和社会的发展中。在过去二十年间，品牌化经营已经成为艺术组织实践的重点，而且，越来越多的组织通过艺术重新塑造了他们的品牌形象。
  在混杂的社会环境中，更加需要新形式的艺术及艺术管理，实验、创新、灵活性、分享及学习成为其中的关键因素。
【Luca Zordan/文 贺雅洁/译】

This essay examines collaborations between artists and natural scientists in the 19th century. By analysing images realized by artists in the context of research travels with scientists, it investigates to which extent images have contributed to the development of ecological perspectives of that time. Pointing out the impactful role of artists, next to scientists, in 19th century's ecology, it questions the definition of ecology as a scientific discipline, as it was originally conceived.
In the same time in which many new scientific disciplines were established in the 19th century, determining an increasing separation of knowledge into specialized research fields, there was a great amount of exchanges and networks between artists and scientists. While highlighting the presence of numerous interdisciplinary contacts, this paper focuses on collaborations, which led artists and scientists to the production of a common work, in particular a publication. In the different relations between images and texts, in the different ways of collaborating between artists and scientists emerge also various ecological perspectives.
Illustrirtes Thierleben -known in Germany as Brehms Thierleben- stands as an admirable collaborative work characterized by ecological perspectives and sensibilities, which cannot be entirely comprehended within scientific frames. In the dynamic and innovative suspense between myth and science lies the power of its images.

Course taught by Dr. Luca Zordan at Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.
International Semester, Bachelor of Economics and Management
Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.

Since the nineteenth-century emergence of a separated knowledge, which still characterizes most of present academic and social institutions, disciplinary boundaries have blurred in an increasingly interconnected society and digital economy.
The course addresses the introduction and impact of interactions of art and economy as strategy to face fast changes and global challenges, exploring a bright spectrum of case-studies drawn from art movements, museums and business companies in the 20th and 21st century.

Seminar taught by Dr. Luca Zordan at the Master of Economics, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics.
Autumn 2016

The seminar aims at giving participants a general presentation of the interaction of art and economy in the 20th and 21st century. Through the transdisciplinary analysis of multiple and different cases, it will introduce to theoretical discussion on the value of the management for arts and of arts for business, reflecting on their increasing convergence, development and social impact.

On the theme of e-Co.design the forum organized by Luca Zordan gathers international designers, artists, scientists from about 20 countries, in open dialogue with officials from the National, Provincial, City and County Governments of China, directly in contact with Zhejiang's local people and realities.
Speakers:
DESIGN IMPACT Peter Noever, Designer, Curator Art+Architecture (Austria); Clive Roux, CEO, Industrial Designers Society of America (USA); Chen Dongliang, Chairman, China Red Star Design Award Committee; Soon-In Lee, President, Seoul Design Center (Korea); Young Kim, CEO, Inno Design (Korea); Peter Litzlbauer, Professor of Architecture and Design, Stuttgart University (Germany)
DESIGN AS STRATEGY Reiner Packeiser, Head of Exhibitions, Vitra Design Museum (Germany); Lars Thoegersen, CEO, CPH Design (Danemark); Anu Leinonen, Architect (Finland); Sebastian Herkner, Industrial Designer (Germany); Stephane Boucher, Enthomologist, National Museum of Natural History (France); Laurent Jammes, General Manager, ACTYS (France)
DESIGNING IN CHINA Lynnette Chan, founder, rénnovate (Singapore); Michael Leung, industrial designer (Hong Kong); Russel Haines, Design Manager, memoryxdesign (New Zealand); Cecilia Reichstul, Architect (Brazil); Jose Manuel Enesoe Chan, Fashion Designer (Brazil); Per Erik Bjornsen, CEO, Morph Design and Consulting (Italy); Jonas Merian, Furniture Designer (Switzerland)

The Sunhoo Industrial Design Forum organized by Luca Zordan invites Chinese and international designers, artists and entrepreneurs to bring together their way of thinking through adaptive and responsive engagement; to embrace design as a cultural and economic dialogic process in Zhejiang.

In the context of the Festival for Creativity and Innovation, “Interurban Connections. Engines of Global Innovation”, the conference offers a platform to share and exchange views with an interested and diverse audience, which ranges from political figures and entrepreneurs to design professionals and students. It is composed by sessions, opened by keynote speakers, with a variety of topics and theme including:
Dutch Design; Korean contemporary Design; Austrian Art, Architecture and Design; German Industrial Design; Design for Technology; Human Centered Design.
Selected speakers:
Dutch Design Session
Christine de Baan, Director, DutchDFA, Rotterdam
Henny van Nistelrooy, Designer, Beijing/London
Lidi Brouwer, Roosegaarde Studio, Waddinxveen/Shanghai
Arjan Schep, Director, 3House productions, Guangzhou

References to the undefined
Peter Noever, Design and Art Curator, Principal, Noever Design,Vienna

Korean Design
Soonin Lee, President, Design Center, Seoul; President, ICSID (International Council of Society of Industrial Design)

Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie der China Academy of Art
Yang Xiujing. Director, Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

IT and Design:
Russell Haines, Director, Memoryxdesign, Beijing
Masato Kawasaki, senior designer, Lenovo, Beijing
Cory Grenier, Marketing Manager, Lenovo', Beijing
Duan Fei, Design Manager, LG, Beijing

Human Centered Design
Lynnette Chan, Director, Rennovate, Shanghai/Singapore
Douglas Wang, Founder, PleasantUser Design&Technology, Shanghai