On the occasion of the Centennial Celebrations of writer Italo Calvino (1923 – 1985), a lecture by visual artist Gian Maria Tosatti.
In English, on Zoom.
Wednesday, November 1 | 12:30 pm PST
ZOOM
The event is part of Six Memos for the Present 1923-2023, an interdisciplinary lecture series celebrating Italo Calvino’s centennial, curated by USC Professor Gian Maria Annovi. Each lecture will expand Calvino’s text in different directions with the goal of fostering a discussion on the role of literature in today’s society. Download the full program.
ZOOM EVENT
Zoom link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/92597017094
MEETING ID: 925 9701 7094
GIAN MARIA TOSATTI
(Rome, 1980) s an Italian visual artist, journalist and essayist. His work consists mainly of large
site-specific installations, conceived for entire buildings or urban areas. His practice often involves the communities of the places for which the works are developed. In 2014 Domus mentions his work My dreams, they’ll never surrender among the world’s top 10 exhibitions for that year. In 2015, ArtReview listed him among the world’s 30 most interesting artists of his generation. He worked for a year in the Calais Jungle making environmental interventions that are currently the only visible evidence of that city’s existence. Since 2021 he has been artistic director of the Quadriennale di Roma. In 2022 he is the only artist in the Italian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. As a curator, he has carried out a number of projects such as Reload – prototipo d’intervento urbano (Rome – 2011), an investigation on the generation of artists and curators of the 21st century in the city of Rome, and the exhibition Nowhere – Now here – No we’re at the A4 Arts Foundation (Cape Town – 2019).