forschungsbericht november 2008 – juli 2012 - Kunsthistorisches ...

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organizzato in concomitanza con la mostra aperta al GDSU e realizzata in collaborazione
con il KHI: Albrecht Dürer incisore. Originali, copie e derivazioni nelle collezioni del Gabinetto
Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi (29 marzo – 10 giugno 2007) e diede luogo al volume Linea I.
Grafie di immagini tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, a cura di Marzia Faietti e Gerhard Wolf,
uscito a Venezia nel 2008.
Il convegno Linea II. Tangents, interlaces, knots, labyrinths. Structure
and meaning of lines from antiquity to the contemporary period (2010) si è incentrato su strutture
lineari corrispondenti a elementi costitutivi, iconici e aniconici, dell'arte visiva: linee che corrono
parallele, che si intrecciano o si annodano, che creano labirinti o indicano la via di fuga e
che ricorrono in tipologie di materiali e generi artistici assai diversificati. L'obiettivo centrale
era quello di mettere a fuoco dinamiche intrinseche del linguaggio segnico lineare, nelle sue
più disparate articolazioni, per costituire un cantiere operativo aperto in modo costantemente
trasversale allo sguardo e alla lettura di elementi semantici e ontologici afferenti a culture ed
epoche diverse. Il volume Linea II. Giochi, metamorfosi, seduzioni della linea, a cura di Marzia
Faietti e Gerhard Wolf, edito a Firenze nel 2012, ha raccolto i risultati di quelle indagini.
Finalmente il convegno (Sen). On Lines and Non-Lines, che chiuderà il ciclo di incontri originati
dal Progetto Linea, si svolgerà a Tokyo nel settembre del 2013 in collaborazione con
l'Università di quella città e avrà lo scopo di esplorare i confini tra disegno e scrittura in
culture tra loro diverse, con un focus rivolto alle interrelazioni tra linee e superfici.
Va da ultimo ricordato che il Progetto Linea ha favorito incontri legati a temi lineari, come
il seminario La Linea e il Tratto. Incisioni – Segni – Disegni, nato dalla collaborazione tra il
GDSU, il KHI e l'Università di Berna (2008).
The Temple and the Museum. Considering the Places of Art and Religion
in a Comparative Perspective between India and Europe (1200–2012)
Max Planck Partner Group in India
The temple and the museum are the two major contexts in which pre-modern art is held
and displayed. Both institutions make a claim to caring for tradition, and claim to be the
legitimate sites for the representations of art and culture. However, since the museum is
a post-enlightenment project, and is one that depends on a secular re-framing of art, the
two institutions potentially are in conflict with each other over the custodianship of
artefacts, the appropriate ways to use them, as well as the right to determine their meaning
and significance.
In a society that is as complex and polyvalent as India, the tensions between the ›temple‹
and the ›museum‹ are bound to be greatly fraught. Some of the questions the Partner Group
addresses are: How are art and the museum considered in societies whose experience of
modernity differs from the European one? What is the function of art in Hinduism, Buddhist,
Islamic or pluri-religious societies like India? What was the impact of the colonial
experience in this respect and what are the implications of the postcolonial redefinition of
the museum? How do the visual practices in Hindu, Christian and Islamic temples differ
one from and how do they relate to each other? If we understand the temple as a space of
social interactions, what is then the function and place of art within the religious sphere? Is
it essential for the negotiation of social conflicts? And at last: How do art and the museum
– today and in the past – intersect with religious conflicts?
The Partner Group was awarded in spring 2009, started to operate in March 2010 and was
positively evaluated in 2012. It has conducted periodic meetings and joint workshops involving
the Partner Group members. At the same time, it has built a programme of annual
themes which focus on a specific region-religion complex, and which are investigated
through a postdoctoral fellowship, a conference and a planned publication.
Kavita Singh
(School of Arts and Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
in New Delhi)
in collaboration with
Hannah Baader
Gerhard Wolf
Inaugural lecture by Serge Gruzinski, From Japanese Screens to Wong Kar Wai’s »Happy
Together« – Mestizo objects on the move (16th–21st centuries), 08.12.2009
Activities
Workshop Icons: Affect and Spectacle, and public lecture by Dario Gamboni: Recycling Neolithic
Urns and Vinyl Records: Transcultural Aspects of Iconoclash, 15.–17.02.2010 (in collaboration