|
|
Gonzaga University in Florence award sculptor Yvonne di Palma
The Gonzaga in Florence Program inaugurated its 45th academic year at the Stensen Institute last night. The event was organized with the participation of the municipal department of culture, guided by Giovanni Gozzini, a sign of the enduring collaboration between the Gonzaga educational program and the Florentine institutions.
The Academic Dean John Patrick Burke opened the celebration with a speech on the role played by Gonzaga in Florence in the formation of generations of American students who benefitted from direct contact with the roots of early modernity. The importance of interculturality for the Gonzaga educational assets was illustrated with significant travels of this year's program, like the recent Bosnia trip and the coming visit to China.
Two years ago Gonzaga in Florence initiated a series of special awards for the faculty members who have distinguished themselves over the past two decades. This time the award went to Yvonne Di Palma, professor of sculpture for over 20 years and an accomplished artist, well-known to the Italian public and art critics. Yvonne di Palma came to Italy more than thirty years ago to refine her knowledge of fine arts.
One of most powerful sources of inspiration for her entire career was the seventeenth century Neapolitan presepio, she decided to use for a reflection on the contemporary world.
The basic idea which animates her “Presepial Installation in Honor of Peace” is to annull national and social distinctions, bringing together powerful political and religious figures of the past decades, humble people and characters of the nativity scene.
The installation, now visible in the center of Florence, occupies 65 square meters and exhibits over 300 sculptures perfected with the method of the figurari sculptorum, which combines terraccotta clay-fired and painted heads, with carved wooden hands, bodies of wire and hand sewn garments.
The artist spoke in front of the students about the passion and sacrifice art requires and presented the major works she completed in Italy, some of them projected with her late husband, the sculptor Michele Attanasio. Highly appreciated was the critical essay written by Francesco Vosilla and Sergio Risaliti on the “Presepial Installation in Honor of Peace” an in-depth analysis of the religious, anthropological, political and aesthetic dimensions of Di Palma's work.
Lifestyle, Arts and Entertainment - a7.11.15.17.03
Further information - CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
- CIOTOLI – D.S. Butterworth, American poet, fiction and essay author, professor of creative writing and literature at Gonzaga University collaborates with Florence Newspaper...
Web links
|
