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Loading... Loading... porcile.org About the contributors the categories contact us disclaimer / imprint Places Munich RSS Show: Filter: All All the classical review the classical review meta review meta review flaschendrehen flaschendrehen fromage de tete a tete fromage de tete a tete anger management anger management sad mondays sad mondays A Conversation with Denis Viva on a Critical Re-Reading of the Transavanguardia A Conversation with Denis Viva on a Critical Re-Reading of the Transavanguardia The Bens
The Bensplainer: In 2020, you published in Italian “La critica a effetto: rileggendo ‘La transavanguardia italiana’ (1979),” an ambitious and very critical study on one of the ‘untouchables’ in Italian curatorship: Achille Bonito Oliva. Your case-study is Bonito Oliva’s inaugural text on the ‘Transavanguardia,’ published in the magazine ‘Flash Art’ in the October-November 1979 issue. It considered a group of artists – Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino, plus the
The first question is perhaps the most naive: why this book now? If you allow me, it does not seem accidental. Only a few months ago the Castello di Rivoli and its director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, former director of Documenta 13 in 2012, opened an ‘homage’ exhibition to Bonito Oliva – as a critic and a curator, but not an artist – celebrating his position in the ‘temple’ museum par excellence in Italy, which is, among other things, also the temple for ‘Arte Povera,’ a term coined by his ‘opponent’ Germa
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